2/8/22, 8:50 AM FE32 Logical Reasoning

FE32 Logical Reasoning

First Short Test,

slot 1

Date- 8-2-2022

Number of question 20

Maximum marks- 20

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Attempt all the questions.

There is no negative marking.

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1) .............logic has/have the privilege of supporting the conclusion with

conclusive evidences. *

A) Deductive

B) Inductive

C) Both

D) None

2) The unit of reasoning is a proposition which is wholly and totally *

A) Language neutral

B) Non factual

C) Emotive

D) None

3) Induction and deduction are

A) Irrelevant to each other

B) Complementary to each other

C) Supplementary to one another

D) Both (B) and (C)

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4) Assertion (A) : No proposition by itself, in isolation, is either a premise or a

conclusion. Reason: It is a premise only where it occurs as an assumption in an
argument: it is a conclusion only where it occurs in an argument in which it is
claimed to follow from propositions assumed in that argument. *

A) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.

B) Both A and R are true and R is not the correct explanation of A.

C) A is true but R is false.

D) A is false but R is true.

5) The attributes of truth and falsity can never belong to argument but to *

A) Deductive inference only

B) Inductive inference only

C) sentences that are propositions

D) Both Deductive and inductive

6) Assertion (A) : The strength of the conclusion of inductive reasoning vary in

degrees: some conclusions are highly probable whereas some others are less
probable. Reason (R) : The evidence ( premisses) only supports the conclusion
and do not "entail it". *

A) Both A and R are true and R is the correct explanation of A.

B) Both A and R are true and R is not the correct explanation of A.

C) A is true but R is false.

D) A is false but R is true.

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7) The logicians are more interested in the *

A) Structure of the propositions rather than the logical relations between them

B) The logical relations between propositions rather than the truth or falsehood of
them

C) Truth or falsehood of proposition rather than the logical relations between them

D) None of the above

8) In formal logic to say that certain conclusions are inferable from certain
premises is equivalent to *

A)that, those premises and conclusions are true.

B) Saying that those premises ( either separately or jointly ) imply those conclusions.

C) Both (A) and (B)

D) None of the above

9. The job of inductive logician is two fold: firstly to collect the data and secondly
to *

Establish an empirically true proposition

Establish a reasonably acceptable conclusion on the basis of collected data

Establish the truth

None of the above

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10. From the logical point of view, interrogative, exclamatory, emotive and
imperative sentences are *

A) Valid arguments

B) propositions

C) Not propositions

D) Inductive arguments

11. The sentence, " The sum of all angles of a triangle is equivalent to 180°" *

A) can be evaluated as true or false

B) can be evaluated as valid or invalid

C) is subjective that can not be evaluated as true or false

D) None of the above.

12. The sentence, ' It is raining' is *

A) Tautalogous ( always true)

B) Contingent ( Sometimes true, sometimes false)

C) Self Contradicyory( always false)

D) not a proposition. Truth/ falsity can not be assigned to it.

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13. Stating the same proposition in different languages, changes the truth value
of proposition. *

True

False

14. If all premises are TRUE and the conclusion is FALSE, then a deductive
argument is bound to be *

Valid

Invalid

Undetermined

Sound

15. What does correct reasoning mean? *

A)It distinguishes right from wrong premisses

B) It discovers the right meaning of the premises

C) Both ( a) and (b)

D) It discovers the right order between the evidences and conclusion

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16. Bablu showed a diamond ring to his friend Babli. Bablu told Babli that he is
planning to marry Bhuri. On the basis of above facts Mr. Bala draws the
conclusion that Bablu must be surprising Bhuri with the diamond ring tonight. Mr.
Bala's reasoning is *

A) Inductive

B) Deductive

C) Valid

D) Sound

17. Premiss 1: Four Books ( A, B, C, D) have the characteristics of X1, X2, X3, X4.
Premiss 2: A, B, C have another characteristics X5. Therefore, D also has the
characteristics of X5. This argument is *

Inductive

Deductive

Certain

Sound

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18. Which of the following statements are correct *

A) Using question to express a premise is sometimes counterproductive, however,

because it may invite answers ( by the listener, or silently by the reader) that threatens
the conclusion at which the argument aims.

B) Questions can serve most effectively as premises when the answers assumed
really do seem to be clear and inescapable.

C) Arguments that depend on rhetorical questions are always suspect. Because the
question is neither true nor false, it may be serving as a device to suggest there truth
of some proposition while avoiding responsibility of asserting it.

D) All of the above.

19. Identify the premisses in the given argument:(1) We are not aware of any
process of instructing about Brahman( Absolute being) AS (2) The eye does not
go there, nor speech, nor mind AND (3) we do not know Brahman to be such and
such. *

A) 1 and 2

B) 2 and 3

C) 1 and 3

D) All 1, 2 and 3

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20. Genes and Proteins are discovered, not invented. Inventions are patentable,
discoveries are not. Thus, protein patents are intrinsically flawed. This argument
contains *

Deductive reasoning

Inductive reasoning

Both

None

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