Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R. In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

Assertion (A):As per Classical Indian School of Logic the argument that sound is quality because it is visible is fallacious.

Reason (R):In the above argument the middle term by its very nature cannot be present in the minor term.

ABoth A and R are correct and R is the correct explanation of A ✓ Correct

BBoth A and R are correct but R is not the correct explanation of A

CA is correct but R is not correct

DA is not correct but R is correct

Correct answer: (A) Both A and R are correct and R is the correct explanation of A

Explanation

The argument is genuinely fallacious and the reason correctly identifies why, so both hold with the reason explaining the assertion.

Sound is inaudible to sight, so being visible cannot belong to sound at all.

The reason or middle term visible is therefore absent from the minor term, the subject (paksha), which is sound.

A reason that cannot reside in the subject is the unproved-reason fallacy, asiddha, specifically the unestablished locus.

Since the middle's absence in the subject is exactly what makes the inference defective, the reason explains the assertion.

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