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blackberryblackberry Alum Member
in Logical Reasoning 218 karma

I have a question. If you are given a statement like the below:

Most dogs are cute.

Does this by inference mean that some dogs are not cute? As in there is at least a some relationship between dogs and cute. Say there are 100 dogs. 99 are cute. What about the remaining 1? Is it common sensical to assume it is not cute, or are we not allowed to make such an inference.

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  • jacoblokashjacoblokash Alum Member
    58 karma

    Cant make that inference. "Most" simply means more than half, perhaps all. Even if you're given the statement, "51 out of every 100 dogs are cute, therefore most dogs are cute," I don't think you should infer that 49 out of every 100 dogs is not cute. Why? because the statement has not said anything about those other 49 dogs and their cuteness. The statement, "99 out of every 100 dogs is cute," is logically consistent with the statement "51 out of every 100 dogs are cute." If there are 99 cute dogs than there are definitely 51 cute dogs. Thats all to say that we cant infer from the statement that 51 dogs are cute, that the rest are not because it could be that all but one are cute. Maybe all of them are cute. we dont know and thats why we cant make an inference like that.

  • cooljon525-1-1cooljon525-1-1 Alum Member
    917 karma

    Most can be all so no

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