Why double possibility?


Isn’t here 1st idea is negative i.e little formal education
And due to blank 2nd idea must be positive
So only one possibility i.e support and knowledgeable

Why we have two possibility? How to identify if a question has double possibility? Here it clearly says little education and scholarship means learning and due to although idea gets negated. So +ve learning

it means that he was self-taught (informal education), thus he may or may not have encountered the works of classical authors