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NOTE: Attempt FIVE questions in all, including Question No.8 which is Compulsory. All questions
carry equal marks.
3. What is Inductive Analogy? On what factors does the strength of Inductive Analogy depend?
4. The birth of Islam is the birth of Inductive Intellect. Discuss with reference to Iqbal.
COMPULSORY QUESTION
8. Write only the correct answers in the Answer Book. Don’t reproduce the questions.
1) AAA-2
2) EAE1-1
3) AEO-3
(a) Invalid (b) valid when M exists (c) valid when S exists (d) valid when P exists
4) AAI-3
(a) Invalid (b) valid when M exists (c) valid when S exists (d) valid when P exists
5) No coal tar derivatives are nourishing foods, since no coal tar derivatives are natural grain products,
and all natural grain products are nourishing foods.
(B) Determine the validity of the following with the help of rules:
6) She can have many friends only if she respects them as individuals. If she respects them as individuals,
then she cannot expect them all to behave alike. She does have many friends. Therefore she does not
expect them all to behave alike.
7) Either the manager didn’t notice the change or else he approves of it. He notices it all right. So he must
approve of it.
(C) Identify the form and discuss the validity or invalidity of each of the following arguments:
8) Either he lives in Quetta or in Islamabad. He lives in Quetta. So, he does not live in Islamabad.
9) If it was your business, I would have invited you. It is not, and so I did not.
10) Either wealth is an evil or wealth is a good: but wealth is not an evil: therefore wealth is a good.
12) Time heals all wounds. Time is money. Therefore money heals all wounds.
13) Of course Karl Marx must have been mistaken in maintaining that capitalism is an evil form of
economic and social organization. Why, he was a miserable failure of a man who couldn’t earn enough
money to support his family.
14) My opinions are right, because I will imprison anyone who disagrees with me.
15) Dogs are frequently encountered in the streets. Afghan Hounds are dogs. Therefore Afghan Hounds
are frequently encountered in the streets.
16) If ALL MEN ARE ANIMALS is false, then NO MEN ARE ANIMALS is true.
17) An argument is valid when it is impossible for the premises to be false and conclusion true.
19) __________ is a process in which one proposition is arrived at and affirmed on the basis of certain
others.
20) __________ (fallacy) is committed when one assumes the truth of what one seeks to prove in an effort
to prove it.
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