The company held an important meeting and Xiao Zhang was late again. Manager Wang of the company criticized him and said, "Xiao Zhang, why are you late again?" Xiao Zhang explained: "Because you are late, you are late. ". Which of the following statements correctly describes the error in the inference above? ['Use of a premise that can neither prove true nor false in principle.', 'Generalize the conclusion that an individual type of a thing is true to all kinds of such things.', 'Use a strong argument.', 'Treating the phenomenon itself as an explanation of that phenomenon.']