True or false: what a diagram shows
Exercise and reference answers
- Questions
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- A circle stands for a class of things.
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- Circles inside one another show that all of one is in the other.
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- Circles that never meet show the classes share no members.
- Statement is true
- No
- Statement
- The SIZE of a circle shows how many members the class has.
- Statement is true
- Yes
- Statement
- Overlapping circles show that some members are shared.
Explanation
A diagram makes the relation visible but does not add information. Source: Logic: Deductive and Inductive, Carveth Read (1898), public domain.