UPPSC PCS - 2013
Consider the following statements: Statement: Films are indispensable for entertainment. Conclusions: 1) Films are the only medium of entertainment. 2) People enjoy films 3) People do not like plays. Of these conclusions.
Year Asked: 2013
Correct Answer
C. only 2 is implicit in the statement.
Detailed Explanation
The statement says films are indispensable for entertainment. That is a strong claim, but it says nothing about films being the only medium, or about people disliking plays.
Conclusion 2 is implicit. If films are indispensable for entertainment, audiences must be finding entertainment in them, so people enjoy films. This is the only conclusion that follows necessarily.
Conclusion 1 is not implicit. 'Indispensable' means necessary, not 'only'. Plays, music, sports and books can also entertain, and the statement does not rule them out.
Conclusion 3 is not implicit. Nothing in the statement compares films with plays. Saying people do not like plays is an outside assumption.
Core concept: reading the scope of words like 'indispensable', 'only', 'all' and 'some' in statement-and-conclusion questions. A conclusion counts as implicit only when it follows necessarily, not when it is merely plausible. This habit of reasoning from the text helps in Mains answers on media and culture.
Trap: Many aspirants pick D because all three conclusions sound true in real life. Judge only what the statement itself supports.
This question appeared in UPPCS 2013 GS Paper 2.
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