If the proposition 'Some fishes are not egg-laying animals' is given as true, then which of the following propositions could be immediately inferred to be false?
AAll fishes are egg-laying animals ✓ Correct
BSome fishes are egg-laying animals
CNo fishes are egg-laying animals
DSome egg-laying animals are fishes
Correct answer: (A) All fishes are egg-laying animals
Explanation
All fishes are egg-laying animals must be false when the O proposition is true.
The given statement Some fishes are not egg-laying animals is a particular negative O.
The contradictory of an O proposition is the universal affirmative A, All fishes are egg-laying animals.
Contradictories cannot share a truth value, so a true O forces its A to be false.
This is read straight off the square of opposition.
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