CHSE Odisha Elective Logic case studies
CHSE Odisha Elective Logic · Put your knowledge to work in context.
Logic as an elective in the CHSE Odisha +2 curriculum is a descriptive, written-answer subject: candidates explain distinctions, reconstruct arguments in standard form, test validity, and name fallacies, rather than shade bubbles on a machine-scored sheet. It suits students in the Arts stream who intend to take philosophy, law, journalism, public administration or education at degree level, and anyone who wants a disciplined vocabulary for argument. The CHSE Odisha Elective Logic case studies are 5 cases and about 3,451 words.
1Scholarship Notice and the Square of Opposition
The scholarship office of a degree college in Bhubaneswar has issued a notice: 'All students receiving the merit scholarship are residents of the college hostel.' An audit later finds that 7 of the 40 merit scholars live with relatives outside the hostel, so the notice's universal claim is false. In a logic tutorial, three students respond.
726 words, about 4 min2Two Hostel-Fee Syllogisms at a Debate Trial
At a debate-team selection trial in a government college, two students propose arguments about the hostel fee waiver. The coach writes the first on the board: 'All hostellers are mess-fee payers; some scholarship holders are not mess-fee payers; therefore some scholarship holders are not hostellers.' A team member objects that the middle term is undistributed in both premises, so the argument must be invalid.
708 words, about 4 min3Election Message and Informal Fallacies
During the students' union election at an autonomous college, candidate R writes a campaign message: 'My opponent S has proposed 24-hour library access. But if the library opens all night, students will sleep through morning classes, teachers will stop taking attendance seriously, and the college will lose its NAAC A grade.
685 words, about 3 min4Annual Day Rule and Truth-Functional Entailment
The annual day committee of a college has fixed one rule: 'If the electricity board grants a load sanction and the grounds committee clears the drainage work, then the annual day will be held on the main lawn.' On the morning of the event, the principal announces that the annual day will not be held on the main lawn because of rain. Three students in the logic club draw different conclusions.
636 words, about 3 min5Fertilizer Trial with Confounded Variables
Two botany students at a college in Cuttack test the hypothesis 'A new organic fertilizer increases tomato plant height.' They take 20 seedlings of the same variety. Ten are potted in soil mixed with 5 g of fertilizer and placed on a sunny windowsill; ten receive no fertilizer and are placed on a shaded rack.
696 words, about 3 min