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Use deductive reasoning to answer the following. i) Human beings are mortal. Jeevan is a human being. Based on these two statements, what can’ you conclude about Jeevan?ii) All Telugu people are Indians. X is an Indian. Can you conclude that X belongs to Telugu people?iii) Martians have red tongues. Gulag is a Martian. Based on these two statements, what can you conclude about Gulag?iv) What is the fallacy in the Raju’s reasoning in the cartoon below

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i) From the above statements we can deduce that Jeevan is mortal as it is given that all humans are mortal and Jeevan is a human.

ii) No. X may belong to any other language like Tamil, Kannada, Malayali…. etc.

iii) Gulag had red, tongue.

iv) All smarts need not be a President. There could be some other persons who are smart too.



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