UPMSP Intermediate Logic case studies
UPMSP Intermediate Logic · Put your knowledge to work in context.
UPMSP Intermediate Logic is the Class 12 elective offered under the Uttar Pradesh Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad (UP Board) intermediate curriculum. It suits students in the Arts stream who want a formally rigorous subject that sharpens argument analysis, and it is often taken alongside Philosophy, Political Science or Sanskrit. The UPMSP Intermediate Logic case studies are 5 cases and about 3,455 words.
1The Merit Scholarship Argument That Was True but Invalid
At a Kanpur commerce college, the student welfare committee is reviewing 240 students for a merit scholarship. The posted rule states: 'All merit scholarship recipients must have 75% attendance.' Records show 60 scholarship recipients, all with 75% attendance; 90 hostellers, of whom 50 have 75% attendance; and only 15 of those 50 hostellers are scholarship recipients.
775 words, about 4 min2Archive Labels, Conversion, and Existential Import
A district archive has 40 incunabula, 120 manuscripts, and a special-collections reading room. The cataloguer has verified two general statements: (S1) 'All incunabula in the collection are non-loanable.' (S2) 'Some manuscripts in the collection are loanable.' A volunteer prepares a label: 'All non-loanable items are incunabula.' A second volunteer, noting that all 40 incunabula exist and that 25 manuscripts are loanable, proposes: 'Some loanable manuscripts are not incunabula.' A third proposes: 'No loanable item is an incunabulum.' The archivist must decide which labels are logically warranted by S1 and S2, which require the existence information, and which confuse a valid immediate inference with an invalid conversion.
605 words, about 3 min3Lab Access Rules and the Affirming-the-Consequent Error
A university computer lab posts four access rules for the 2024–25 session: (1) If a student has paid the lab fee and completed safety training, then the student is granted lab access. (2) If a student is a graduating senior, then the student has completed safety training.
775 words, about 4 min4The Fertilizer Trial with Two Confounds
An agricultural extension officer in the Terai region tests a new organic fertilizer on wheat. Eight 0.5-hectare plots are selected.
659 words, about 3 min5The Marigolds and the Missing Gardener: A Nyaya Debate
At a Sanskrit school's debate session, a student argues that a recently vacated plot of land has a gardener. The student's inference is: 'This plot has a gardener, because it has flowering marigolds.' The student offers the five-membered Nyaya form: 'This plot has a gardener; because it has flowering marigolds; whatever has flowering marigolds has a gardener, like the school flowerbed; this plot has flowering marigolds; therefore this plot has a gardener.' An opponent objects that a wild hillside two kilometres away has self-seeded marigolds and no gardener, and that the plot's marigolds may have self-seeded after the previous gardener left.
641 words, about 3 min