WorksheetsLogic Premock Examination
Total questions: 51
Worksheet time: 28mins
Logic is aptly defined formally as :
The science of critical thinking
Connected thought expressed in words
The science which distinguishes correct form in correct reasoning
Science of argument
Which of these is the purpose for the study of logic?
To win cases in court
To read people’s minds
To reason correctly
To study the process of thinking
Identify this type of reasoning “A rat ate the corn” in the bags. It follows that every rat eat corn
Deductive
Analogy
Inductive
Analogical
Identify the law of thought expressed in the statement «a goat is a goat»
Non-contradiction
Excluded middle
Sufficient reason
Identity
The activity of the mind where by ideas are formed is known as:
Reasoning
Simple apprehension
Judging
Inference
The representation of something in the mind is referred to as:
Idea
Term
Reasoning
Thinking
When one defines a term by stating its genus and species, it is considered as:
Simulative
Nominal
Analytical
Theoretical
Which of the following is an ostensive definition?
That is a school
A man is a rational animal
Booster bring out the power in you.
Logic means logos
The definition “a teacher is not a learner” can be considered as
Incongruous
Obscured
Extraneous
Negative
Fruits are classified according to their nature, thus: soft, fruits, stone fruits and citrus fruits. Identify the Fundamentum division:
Stone and citrus
Fruits
Citrus and soft
Fruits nature
Which rule of logical division have been violated in the group of terms; Pots, grater, knife, spoons and beds?
Precise and clear
Complete and inadequate
One principle of division
District
In the expression the school senior prefect convoked the student to the general assembly ground at 4:30pm for an announcement, the term “assembly” is considered as:
Collective term
General term
Common term
Correlative term
The technical meaning or export property of a term is referred to as:
Extension
Intension
Denotation
Connotation
When logic examines the relation between a term and its referent, it is adequately known as:
Linguistic
Semantics
Syntax
Language
Identify from below that which is false of the relation between language and thought:
Language clarifies meaning
Language can contextualise ideas
Language can permit one to express ideas
Language increases vocabulary
The statement “please may I have some water?” most appropriately illustrate which function of language?
Performatory
Cognitive
Emotion
Informative
The term about which the assertion is made in the proposition is adequately called:
Subject term
Predicate term
Infinite term
Correlative term
Identify an assertoric modal position below:
Yes after all, he is a politician
Certainly the dry season begins in November
Well, she may be a man.
A rectangle must have four sides
When a categorical proposition denies class inclusion totally by asserting that the members of the subject class are wholly excluded from the predicate class, it is referred to as:
Universal affirmative
Particular negative
Universal negative
Particular affirmative
class are wholly excluded from the predicate class, it is referred to as:
Universal affirmative
Particular negative
Universal negative
Particular affirmative
The statement “A large number of fishes have scales” can be optimally translated as:
Some fishes are not scally creatures
All fishes are scally creatures
Some fishes are scally creatures
All fishes have scales
Identify a proposition below whose subject and predicate terms are undistributed and distributed respectively is:
All men are husbands
No parents are liars
Some mothers are caring persons
Some kids are not thieves
The proposition no insects are useful creatures “is an example of a:
Universal negative proposition
Universal affirmative proposition
Particular affirmative proposition
Particular negative proposition
Express in its standard form “SP≠O” gives:
All S are P
No S are P
Some S are not P
Some S are P
The following diagram can be interpreted as:
The distribution of the subject term is determined by the:
Quantity of the subject term
Quantity of the proposition
Quality of the subject term
Quantity of the proposition
Which of these letters correspond to a proposition whose subject term and predicate term are both undistributed?
I
A
E
O
Which of the following statements illustrate the cognitive function of language?
The 1st of May is labour day
You are handsome
Stop eating in class
Please, bring my phone
The term blindness is defined as:
Private
Positive
Abstract
Negative
Which of the following is true of a proposition?
It is an interrogation
It must be a sentence
It must have truth-value
It must express a wish
The statement every animal is not wild, can be most appropriately translated into the logical form as:
Some animals are not wild
No animals are wild creatures
Some animals are not wild creature
All beats are wild creatures
The proposition, no parent are honest persons, can be adequately symbolized as:
PC≠O
PC=O
PC≠O
PC=O
Which of the following is a hypothetical proposition with the same subject and different predicates?
If Helen is brown, Peter is black
If the dog barks, there is a stranger
If Musa succeeds, he will go to the university
If mama is sick, then the family will have no food
The hypothetical proposition; “If the famers plant early, then their harvest will be good” can best be translated into disjunctive proposition as:
Either the farmers plant early or their harvest will not be good
Either the farmers plant early or their harvest will be good
The harvest will be good either the farmers plant early
The harvest will be good if and only if the farmers plant early
If correctly translate «A majority of civil servant are nurse» will be:
All civil servant are nurses
No civil servant are nurse
Some nurses are civil servant
Some civil servants are not nurse
Which pair of proposition have both subject terms distributed?
E and O
I and O
A and E
I and A
When is a term said to be distributed?
When it is totally represented in the proposition
When it is partially represented in the proposition
When it is totally representative of its class of things
When it is partially representative of its class of things
Which of the following forms of immediate inference are all aspects of opposition:
Sub contrary, inversion, subaltern
Contrariety, contradiction, conversion
Contraposition, obversion, sub contrariety
Contradiction, sub alternation, contrariety
Immediate inference is said to have taken place whenever we logically:
Draw one truth from another truth
Move from a series of proposition to another
Derive a false proposition from a false premise
Infer a true premise from a given premise
Which of the following proposition is the contrary of: All dogs are mammals?
No dogs are mammals
Some dogs are mammals
Some dogs are not mammals
All mammals are dogs
What is the logical relationship existing between the following proposition: No traders are drivers and some traders are drivers?
Contrariety
Sub contrariety
Contradiction
Sub alternation
Which operation of the mind affirms or negate the predicate of a certain subject is referred to as:
Reasoning
Simple apprehension
Apprehension
Judging
The statement “I am Ikukuwaboreh’s child but he is not my father”. Illustrate which law of thought?
Contradiction
Excluded Middle
Identity
Finality
An act of the intellect by which the mind affirms or negate the predicate of a certain subject is referred to as:
Reasoning
Simple Apprehension
Reasoning
Judging
The view that “a thing cannot be what it is and what it is not at the same time” illustrate the view that:
Non contradiction
Identity
Causality
Excluded Middle
The terms husband and wife, justice and peace, slow and steady are adequately considered as:
Common terms
Contradictory terms
Concrete terms
Correlative terms
The statement “baby I love you so much”, is an illustration of which function of language?
Informative
Directive
Expressive
Cognitive
The contradictory of wise is:
Foolish
Intelligent
Unwise
Not wise
All of the following are propositions except one:
Humans eat herbs
Dogs bark
Have a nice day
Men die
The definition of a spinster as “an unmarried woman” is considered to be:
Analytical
Lexical
Theoretical
Simulative
What name is given to the word used to explain the meaning of the symbol being defined?
Definiens
Definiendum
Totum division
Membra Dividentia
