The fallacy of exclusive premises is a formal fallacy committed in a categorical syllogism that is invalid because both of its premises are negative.

Example:

No mammals are fish.

Some fish are not whales.

Therefore, some whales are not mammals.

It is not a syllogistic fallacy because at least one premise of a given syllogism has to be affirmative.

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