Question

Statement: All poets are sensitive people. Some sensitive people are not artists. 
Conclusion I: Some poets are not artists. 
Conclusion II: Some sensitive people may be poets. 
Choose the correct option:

• A. Only Conclusion I follows.
• B. Only Conclusion II follows.
• C. Both conclusions follow.
• D. Neither conclusion follows.

Hint:

• Use Venn diagrams to visualize relationships in syllogisms.
• "All A are B" implies "Some B are A" (assuming A is not an empty set).
• A conclusion must necessarily follow from the statements. If you can find a scenario where the statements are true but the conclusion is false, then the conclusion does not follow.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is B

To solve this problem, we need to evaluate the given statements and conclusions logically:

• Statement: "All poets are sensitive people." This implies that every individual who is a poet is also included in the group of sensitive people. There can be no poet who is not sensitive.
• Statement: "Some sensitive people are not artists." This informs us that within the group of sensitive people, there are individuals who are not categorized as artists.

Now let's assess the conclusions:

• Conclusion I: "Some poets are not artists." Since all poets are sensitive people, and "some sensitive people are not artists," it doesn't directly deduce that "some poets are not artists." This is because the subset of poets within sensitive people is not explicitly stated to overlap with the non-artists. Therefore, Conclusion I does not logically follow based on the given statements.
• Conclusion II: "Some sensitive people may be poets." This is accurate because the statement "All poets are sensitive people" means that poets are indeed part of the sensitive people group. Hence, it is reasonable to deduce that some sensitive people are also poets. Therefore, Conclusion II logically follows.

Based on the analysis above, the correct option is:

Only Conclusion II follows.