I don't think some implies few as indicated in the diagram. Earlier its stated that few implies not most.

Since the higher bound on some could be more than 50%, it seems possible for the statement

For example, if 51% of cats have stripes then the statement

"some cats have stripes" in true while the statement "few cats have stripes" is false.

#feedback Question 2 is not correct. The conclusion is not "Therefore, his asking the police to investigate shows that he is not guilty." but instead just, "he is not guilty.".

The fact that he actually did ask the police to investigate is a separate premise and not part of the conclusion.

Abstractly, the argument can be phrased as follows

P => Q

~Q

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~P by contraposition

It seems to me that relative claims could provide support for an absolute claim.

For example, if you said said, "tom is taller than athena, bob, and john" than to me it makes it more likely that tom is tall and therefore provides weak support for the claim that Tom is tall.

Taking this to the extreme, if you listed out, "tom is taller than x" replacing x with every person in the united states, than it would be very likely that Tom is tall and it would provide strong support for the absolute claim that Tom is tall.