Which of the Following Statements Is Most Accurate

question 15

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is most accurate?

• A) Most criminals are mentally ill.
• B) Most criminals have a mental disorder.
• C) Most mentally disordered individuals are not violent.
• D) Most murderers cannot help themselves because of mental illness.
• E) Most murderers are paranoid schizophrenics.

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Definitions:

Subcontraries

In traditional logic, propositions that cannot both be false but can both be true, specific within the square of opposition.

Subalternates

In logic, these refer to propositions that are related in such a way that the truth of one implies the truth of the other, but not necessarily vice versa.

Contradictories

In logic, statements that are in direct opposition to each other, where if one is true, the other must be false, and vice versa.

Converses

Statements in which the hypothesis and the conclusion (or subject and predicate) are switched in places.