IGNOU BPYM-163 Assignment 2026-27
Logic: An Introduction
Last updated by IGNOU: 29 Sept 2026. Guide written from the official PDF on 19 Oct 2026, 02:54 pm.
| Course code | BPYM-163 |
|---|---|
| Course title | Logic: An Introduction |
| Programme | BFTTMOL |
| Session | July 2026 and January 2027 |
| Maximum marks | 100 |
| Weightage | 30% |
| Last date (June exam) | 30 Apr 2027 |
| Last date (December exam) | 31 Oct 2026 |
| Medium | English, Hindi |
About the BPYM-163 assignment
The BPYM-163 assignment covers the foundations of logic, Western and Indian approaches to inference, categorical propositions, and the Square of Opposition. It also examines reasoning, fallacies, truth and validity, definitions, division, and the properties of logical terms.
There are five compulsory questions worth 20 marks each, with alternatives or choices within them. Questions 1 and 2 require about 400 words each. Question 3 requires two answers of about 200 words each, Question 4 requires four answers of about 150 words each, and Question 5 requires five short notes of about 100 words each.
What the assignment asks
| Question | Marks | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Q1 | 20 | Discuss logic’s nature, scope, importance and relationship with descriptive and normative sciences, or compare Western deductive and Indian logic and examine Vyāpti in Nyāya inference. |
| Q2 | 20 | Explain categorical propositions and their four standard forms, including quality, quantity and distribution, or explain the Square of Opposition and identify the specified opposition relations for two given propositions. |
| Q3 | 2×10=20 | Choose two topics covering deductive versus inductive reasoning, analogical reasoning, formal versus informal fallacies, or truth versus validity. |
| Q4 | 4×5=20 | Choose four topics covering sentences and propositions, arguments and argument-forms, types of definition, rules of division, equivocation, or existential import. |
| Q5 | 5×4=20 | Write five short notes selected from validity and invalidity, connotation, material implication, amphiboly, hasty generalization, categorical proposition quality, term distribution, and obversion. |
This is a summary of each question. Download the official PDF above for the exact questions and word limits.
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