Direction: Which alternatives applies to the given statements and its conclusions?
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Statements:
Some doctors are teachers.
All teachers are counsellors.
Conclusions:
I. Some counsellors are not teachers.
II. Some doctors are counsellors
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- Only conclusion I follows
- Only conclusion II follows
- Both conclusion I and II follow
- Neither conclusion I nor II follow
Correct Option: B
First premise is Particular Affirmative (I–type).
Second premise is Universal Affirmative (I-type).
Both the premises are already aligned. Thus,
Some doctors are teachers ↔ All teachers are counsellors.
We know that, I + A ⇒ I-type conclusion.
Therefor, our derived conclusion would be:
“Some doctors are counsellors”. Thus, only conclusion II follows.
