True or false: using diagrams to test arguments
Read exercise and reference answers
- Questions
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- A conclusion is valid only if every consistent diagram supports it.
- Statement is true
- No
- Statement
- One diagram that supports the conclusion is enough to prove it.
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- One consistent diagram that contradicts it disproves the argument.
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- Diagrams can show that nothing follows from the premises.
- Statement is true
- No
- Statement
- Diagrams add facts not present in the premises.
A conclusion holds only if EVERY diagram consistent with the premises shows it. Source: Logic: Deductive and Inductive, Carveth Read (1898), public domain.