Suppose that the first premise of a disjunctive syllogism is the disjunctive premise.Could the second premise ever be affirmative, without committing the fallacy of affirming a disjunct?
A) No, because it is only permissible to deny one of the disjuncts, and an affirmative proposition cannot do that.
B) No, because no affirmative proposition has a distributed predicate term.
C) Yes, but only if every disjunct is negative.
D) Yes, because one of the disjuncts could be affirmative.
E) Yes, because one of the disjuncts could be negative.
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