Paper 1 · Logical Reasoning
UGC NET December 2023 (14.12.2023) Shift-II
Which of the following arguments is fallacious, as per the classical school of logic, because of the middle term being too narrow?
AAll things are non-eternal because they are knowable
BThe hill has fire because it is knowable
CSound is eternal because it is audible ✓ Correct
DWherever there is fire, there is smoke
Correct answer: (C) Sound is eternal because it is audible — The argument 'sound is eternal because it is audible' has too narrow a middle term, so that is the answer.
Explanation
★The argument 'sound is eternal because it is audible' has too narrow a middle term, so that is the answer.
★In Indian logic this is the asadharana fault, where the middle term is too narrow.
★Audibility belongs only to sound and to nothing else being compared.
★So it is present only in the subject and neither in similar nor dissimilar instances.
★With no supporting example, being audible cannot prove eternality.
★The other arguments do not fail because of a middle term that is too narrow.
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