Statements: Only a few Edition is investors All investors are verdict. No…
2025
Statements:
Only a few Edition is investors
All investors are verdict.
No verdict is affect
Conclusions:
I. No edition is affect
II. All investors being affect is a possibility
In this question below, some statements are given followed by two conclusions numbered I and II. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance with commonly known facts. Read all the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements, disregarding commonly known facts. Give answer-
(a) If only conclusion I follows
(b) If only conclusion II follows
(c) If either conclusion I or II follows
(d) If neither conclusion I nor II follows
(e) If both conclusions I and II follow
- A.
(a) If only conclusion I follows
- B.
(b) If only conclusion II follows
- C.
(c) If either conclusion I or II follows
- D.
(d) If neither conclusion I nor II follows
- E.
(e) If both conclusions I and II follow
Attempted by 10 students.
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Correct answer: D
Concept
In syllogism, a conclusion follows only if it is FORCED by the statements in every possible arrangement (a definite conclusion), or, for a "possibility" conclusion, only if the statements leave room for that arrangement without contradiction. A definite negative chain "All A are B" + "No B is C" yields the definite negative "No A is C". The restricted quantifier "Only a few X is Y" means "some X are Y and some X are not Y"; the not-Y part of X is left undefined with respect to anything else.
Application
All investors are verdict; No verdict is affect. Chaining these two universals gives the definite result: No investor is affect (the investor set is fully inside verdict, and verdict is entirely outside affect).
"Only a few Edition is investors" splits Edition into two parts: the part that ARE investors (so, not affect) and the part that are NOT investors. The non-investor part of Edition has no stated link to affect, so members there may or may not be affect.
Conclusion "No edition is affect": it would need EVERY Edition to avoid affect, but the non-investor Editions are unconstrained and could be affect. Not forced — this conclusion does not follow.
Conclusion "All investors being affect is a possibility": step 1 already established that No investor is affect as a definite fact, so it is impossible for any investor — let alone all — to be affect. The possibility is blocked — this conclusion does not follow.
Cross-check
Neither conclusion is forced and the "all investors affect" possibility is contradicted by a definite negative, so neither I nor II holds. Note I and II are not a complementary pair (they are not "either/or" partners), so the either-or choice is also ruled out. The only consistent verdict is that neither conclusion follows.