Statements: All horses are donkeys. All donkeys are monkeys. Choose the conclusion(s) that logically follow.

1.All horses are monkeys

2.All monkeys are horses

AOnly conclusion I follows ✓ Correct

BOnly conclusion II follows

CBoth conclusions I and II follow

DNeither conclusion I nor II follows

Correct answer: (A) Only conclusion I follows

Explanation

Only the first conclusion, that all horses are monkeys, follows.

'All horses are donkeys' and 'all donkeys are monkeys' chain together.

Passing through donkeys, every horse turns out to be a monkey.

The reverse, that all monkeys are horses, is not entailed.

A universal affirmative does not convert to another universal affirmative.

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