Syllogism Examples Tricks shortcuts Part - 2 - Deductive Reasoning

Syllogism Examples 

as i mentioned earlier in part-1 of  Syllogism - Statements and Logical Conclusions Rules Tricks here i will add Syllogism Examples.  Here is Brief Examples of syllogism or Statement and logical conclusion. there are many types of syllogism but we do not have to worry about it as we are going to solve any syllogism examples. 

Nothing is better than God 
Peanut butter is better than nothing 
Peanut butter is better than God 

What is a Definition of Syllogism 

Syllogism is known as Statements and Logical Conclusions with Logical Arguments. Syllogism is a part of  Deductive Reasoning. A syllogism is a kind of logical argument that applies deductive reasoning to arrive at a conclusion based on two or more propositions that are asserted or assumed to be true.

Syllogism Tricks, techniques and shortcuts to solve

as i mentioned here about syllogism venn diagram solution with shortcuts now i will show you another method which can be comfortable if you don't have much time to draw circles of venn diagrams.

lets say if you are confused on statements and you do not find any answers of syllogism venn diagram. then remember below techniques.

In all the statement of syllogism questions, first-term is called subject and second is called predicate.

no matter what the subject is or a predicate is, just remember the first one is a subject and second one is predicate. see the below examples.

statement	subject	predicate
all pigs are ducks	pigs	ducks
all bjp are congressies	bjp	congressies
all bowlers are batsman	bowlers	batsman
all readers are commentators	readers	commentators

Now see that each statement has 4 variables like i mentioned below.

things	subject	is/are (not)	predicate
all	dogs	are	cats
some	readers	are not	commentators

types of statements in syllogism

Statement	type	code name
All pigs are ducks	Universal Positive	UP
Some Pigs are Ducks	Particular Positive	PP
No Pig is a Duck	Universal Negative	UN
Some Pigs are not Ducks	Particular Negative	PN

how to classify which statement is universal or particular? 

All, every, any, none, not a single, only	Universal
Some, many, a few, quite a few, not many, very little, most of, almost, generally, often, frequently	Particular

Conversation of statements 

Code-Name	Conversation
UP	Only PP
UN	PN or UN
PP	Only PP
PN	We Can not convert it

UP+UP=UP

UP+UN=UN

UN+(UP/PP)=PN

PP+(UP/UN)= PP OR PN

here is the easy way to understand the upper chart.

All + All = All
All + No = No
All + Some = No Conclusion
Some + All = Some
Some + Some = No Conclusion
Some + No = Some Not
No + No = No Conclusion
No + All = Some not reversed
No + Some = Some not reversed

so how we going to solve this syllogism questions in exams?

Let's solve this question to be understood the trick.

Statement : 

All mothers are parents. (UP)
Some women are not mothers. (PN)

Conclusion : 
A All mothers are women
B Some mothers are parents
C All parents are mothers
D None of the above

Now you can see ALL + Some have no conclusion so that means our answer would be (D) 

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