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

Assertion (A):According to the Classical Indian school of logic (Nyaya), the argument 'Sound is eternal because it is audible' is fallacious.

Reason (R):In the argument 'Sound is eternal because it is audible', the middle term is too wide.

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

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

CA is correct but R is not correct ✓ Correct

DA is not correct but R is correct

Correct answer: (C) A is correct but R is not correct

Explanation

The argument is indeed fallacious, but the middle term is too narrow, not too wide.

'Audible' belongs to sound alone and to nothing else whatever.

A sound reason must be present in the subject and in known similar cases.

Here the reason is absent from every case outside sound itself.

This is the asadharana (uncommon) hetu, an inconclusive reason that is too restricted.

The Assertion holds while the Reason misstates the defect as excessive width.

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