Linear Syllogisms Tests

Comparisons are odious.

John Fortescue, De Laudibus Legum Angliae, 19

Description

The tests below constitute a series designed to assess your ability to reason from assumptions concerning the linear ordering of things according to some arbitrary property, like height.

When things are linear ordered, for any two things X and Y, either

Each test has 10 items. In each item, you will be given some assumptions concerning some linearly ordered things. Your task is to select the answer choice that must be true if the assumptions in the item are all assumed to be true.

Some of the incorrect answer choices will be necessarily false, assuming the assumptions in the item are true, and some may be true or may be false, assuming the assumptions in the item are true.

These tests are an assessment of the ability to reason deductively in the context of a linear ordering with an indefinite number of ordered elements.

Context

The item type found in these tests resembles several item types that are common on professional intelligence tests, all requiring the ability to use deductive reasoning in a particular context and requiring the ability to conceptualize linear orderings.

The Tests

Test 1