True or false: the fallacy of illicit process

Exercise and reference answers

Questions

Statement is true
Yes
Statement
A term distributed in the conclusion must be distributed in a premise.
Statement is true
Yes
Statement
Breaking that rule is called an illicit process.
Statement is true
Yes
Statement
It is named after whichever term was wrongly distributed.
Statement is true
Yes
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Illicit process makes the argument invalid.
Statement is true
No
Statement
Any term may be distributed in the conclusion freely.

Explanation

A term distributed in the conclusion must already have been distributed in its premise, or the argument commits an illicit process. Source: Logic: Deductive and Inductive, Carveth Read (1898), public domain.

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