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The following questions two statements are given and these statements are followed by two conclusions 

numbered I and II. You have to take tfie given two statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance

 from commonly known facts. Read the conclusions and then decide which ofthe given conclusions logically

follows from the two given statements, disregarding commonly known facts.

Statements : Some chairs are stools.

                     Table is a chair.

Conclusions : I. Some stools are chairs.

                      II. Table is not a stool.


Options:
A .  if only conclusion I follows;
B .  if only conclusion II follows;
C .  if either I or II follows;
D .  if neither I nor II follows and
E .  if both I and II follow.
Answer: Option D

The first premise is an I type proposition. So, the middle term 'chairs1 forming the

subject is not distributed.

The second premise is an A type proposition. So, the middle term 'chairs* forming

the predicate is not distributed.

Since the middle term is not distributed even once, no conclusion follows.



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