UGC NET Questions (Paper – 1)

Statements A, B, C and E correctly summarise the requirement that a categorical syllogism use exactly three terms and how violations occur, while D is false. Four distinct terms, whether through outright multiplication or ambiguity of a term, break the three-term rule and generate the fallacy of four terms. A two-term argument is not automatically valid; it may fail other rules. UGC NET questions do ask candidates to detect such fallacies, so E is also true. Hence A, B, C, E only constitutes the right set.

Option A:
Option A is incomplete because it omits E, failing to mention the explicit exam relevance that the question highlights. A, B, C only therefore does not fully answer the stem.

Option B:
Option B is wrong as it leaves out C, ignoring that ambiguity of the middle term can effectively produce four terms even if the same word is used. A, B, E only thus misses an important mechanism of the fallacy.

Option C:
Option C is correct because it collects all true descriptive and exam-related statements and excludes D, which incorrectly declares any two-term syllogism valid. This matches standard treatments of syllogistic structure.

Option D:
Option D is incorrect since it includes D, the false claim about two-term syllogisms, and so B, C, D, E only mixes correct and incorrect information. It therefore cannot be accepted as the correct option.