SOLUTION: Determine whether the following argument is valid or invalid. If valid, name the type or reasoning and if invalid, determine the error in reasoning. All physicists are eccentri

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Question 320732: Determine whether the following argument is valid or invalid. If valid, name the type or reasoning and if invalid, determine the error in reasoning.
All physicists are eccentric.
All eccentrics are rich.
Therefore, all physicists are rich

Answer by vleith(2983)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Valid
I would say transitive logic gets you there.

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