According to the rules of validity, which terms must be distributed in the unstated premise of the following enthymeme? All banks are institutions with government-insured deposits.
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No hedge fund is a bank.

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In the given enthymeme, the unstated premise must connect the two given statements logically. For the conclusion "No hedge fund is a bank" to follow from "All banks are institutions with government-insured deposits," the unstated premise must involve both "hedge fund" and "institutions with government-insured deposits." This is because the conclusion involves hedge funds and banks, and the given premise involves banks and institutions with government-insured deposits. To logically connect these, the distribution of terms must include both the hedge fund (to connect to the conclusion) and institutions with government-insured deposits (to connect to the given premise).

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