Given below are two premises. Four conclusions are drawn from them. Premises: (a) All mammals are warm-blooded animals. (b) No lizards are warm-blooded animals. Select the validly drawn conclusion or conclusions, taking the premises individually or jointly.
The validly drawn conclusions are Statement 1 (No lizards are mammals) and Statement 3 (No warm-blooded animals are lizards).
Placing the premises together, the mammal class lies inside the warm-blooded class while the lizard class lies wholly outside it.
Since mammals are contained in what lizards are excluded from, no lizard can be a mammal, which is Statement 1.
Taking the second premise alone, "No lizards are warm-blooded" converts simply into "No warm-blooded animals are lizards", which is Statement 3.
The derivation uses a categorical syllogism for the joint conclusion and simple conversion of an E proposition for the individual one.
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