about the topic.
Directions: Tell whether the following situations exhibit sound
reasoning or not. Put a check mark (/) before the number if the situation
exhibits sound reasoning, and x mark (x) if not.
Example:
Unemployed cannot afford health insurance. All politicians can afford
health insurance. Therefore, no politician is unemployed.
Answer: /, sound reasoning, the premises are actually true.
1. Insects have four legs, spiders have eight. Therefore spiders are
not insect.
2. Her parents are both engineer therefore, she, too will become an
engineer
3. Chance has sweet tooth. He doesn't like chocolates and candies.
4. Mammals have mammary glands. Dolphin is a mammal.
Therefore, dolphins have mammary glands.
5. Covid-19 is a contagious disease. Therefore, Covid-19 is easily
transmitted.​