Which of the following statements are always true?

1.A wooden table is a table

2.Right now, it is either raining or not raining

3.The sun rises in the East every day

4.A chicken comes out of a hen's egg

A1 and 2 ✓ Correct

B1, 3 and 4

C1 and 3

D2 and 3

Correct answer: (A) 1 and 2

Explanation

Only the analytic claim and the excluded-middle claim hold in every possible case.

'A wooden table is a table' is true by the meaning of its terms alone.

'It is either raining or not raining' is true by the law of excluded middle.

The sunrise and hen's-egg claims are empirical generalisations that could fail in some case.

Being true in every case marks a necessary truth, which Statement 1 and Statement 2 alone are.

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