If a person has five letters in his/her name,then s/he is a Glirple.Fred now reasons that anyone who is a Glirple must have five letters in his/her name.Fred has ______.

A) made a correct inference according to modus ponens
B) made a correct inference according to modus tollens
C) committed the fallacy of denying the antecedent
D) committed the fallacy of affirming the consequent

Modus Ponens

A logical argument form and a rule of inference that, if a premise implies a conclusion and the premise is true, then the conclusion must also be true.

Modus Tollens

A logical argument form that suggests if a implies b, and b is found to be false, then a must also be false.

Antecedent

An event, condition, or cause that logically or temporally precedes another; in grammar, the noun or noun phrase that a pronoun refers to.