Select the answer choice that correctly completes the following:
All human beings are mortal.
Plato is a human being.

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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.

Select the Answer Choice That Correctly Completes the Following