Byrne: One of our club's bylaws specifies that any officer who fails to appear on time for any one of the quarterly board meetings, or who misses two of our monthly general meetings, must be suspended. Thibodeaux, an officer, was recently suspended. But Thibodeaux has never missed a monthly general meeting. Therefore, Thibodeaux must have failed to appear on time for a quarterly board meeting.
Question: The reasoning in Byrne's argument is flawed in that the argument
Options:
A. fails to consider the possibility that Thibodeaux has arrived late for two or more monthly general meetings
B. presumes, without providing justification, that if certain events each produce a particular result, then no other event is sufficient to produce that result
C. takes for granted that an assumption required to establish the argument's conclusion is sufficient to establish that conclusion
D. fails to specify at what point someone arriving at a club meeting is officially deemed late
E. does not specify how long Thibodeaux has been an officer
Answer: B