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Select the answer choice that correctly completes the following: All human beings are mortal.Plato is a human being.
  1. Plato should make a will.
  2. All mortals are human beings.
  3. All human beings are Plato.
  4. Plato is mortal.
Explanation
Answer: D - Plato is mortal. The first sentence is a major premise and establishes a general principle taken as true-that human beings are mortal. The second sentence is a minor premise and establishes that a specific person is a human being. Answer D properly connects the major and minor premises by concluding that Plato (a human being) comes within the general principle (mortality of human beings) established in the major premise.
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