Some statements are followed by two inferences, I and II. The inferences may be wrongly or correctly drawn. Choose the correct answer. Statement: All apples are oranges. Some oranges are papayas.…
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Some statements are followed by two inferences, I and II. The inferences may be wrongly or correctly drawn. Choose the correct answer.
Statement: All apples are oranges. Some oranges are papayas.
Inferences:
I. Some apples are papayas.
II. Some papayas are apples.
Inferences:
I. Some apples are papayas.
II. Some papayas are apples.
- If only inference I follows
- If only inference II follows
- Both I and II follow
- Neither I nor II follows
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: D - Neither I nor II follows
All apples are oranges and some oranges are papayas, but the oranges that are papayas may lie entirely outside the apples, because the middle term "oranges" is not distributed. So neither "some apples are papayas" (I) nor its converse "some papayas are apples" (II) follows.
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