Suppose that a syllogism has four terms: uncommunicative people, communicative people, Ruth, and people who make friends easily.Can the rules of validity determine whether or not the syllogism is valid?
A) Yes, but only after immediate inference is used to collapse the first two terms into one.
B) Yes, but only after immediate inference is used to expand the number of terms to six.
C) Yes, the rules can be applied without first making any changes to the syllogism.
D) No, because it is impossible to put the syllogism into standard form.
E) No, because the rules of validity cannot be used when one of the terms is a proper name.
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