No Flying Carpets Are Dependable Vehicles

question 385

Multiple Choice

No flying carpets are dependable vehicles. Therefore, all flying carpets are undependable vehicles.

• A) Invalid, illicit subalternation.
• B) Invalid, illicit contrary.
• C) Valid, no fallacy.
• D) Invalid, illicit contraposition.
• E) Invalid, existential fallacy.

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