Paper 1 · Logical Reasoning
Statements: No tree is a bottle. No bottle is unbreakable. Choose the conclusion(s) that logically follow.
- I. No tree is unbreakable
- II. Nothing unbreakable is a tree
AOnly conclusion I follows
BOnly conclusion II follows
CBoth conclusions I and II follow
DNeither conclusion I nor II follows ✓ Correct
Correct answer: (D) Neither conclusion I nor II follows — Neither conclusion follows, so that is the answer.
Explanation
★Neither conclusion follows, so that is the answer.
★Both premises are negative.
★From two negative premises no conclusion can be validly drawn.
★The relation between trees and unbreakable things stays undetermined.
★So neither conclusion nor its converse follows.
★So neither conclusion follows.
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