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ID: LSAT-LR-028
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Flaw in the Reasoning
Difficulty level: Easy

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Economist: It is said that the new harbour dues drove the fishing fleet to the next port. That cannot be right. The dues rose in March, and by then eleven of the eighteen boats had already gone; the first left in January. The fleet left because the ice plant closed the previous November.

The reasoning above is most vulnerable to criticism on the grounds that it

Aoverlooks the possibility that the boats moved for reasons unconnected with the port at all, having nothing to do with its dues or its facilities

Bassumes, in dismissing the harbour dues, that a cause must always come before the effect it produces

Ctreats a claim made by others as though nothing had been offered in support of it, rejecting it before any of the reasoning behind it is examined

Dconfuses the closure of the ice plant with the rise in the harbour dues, treating two separate changes at the port as one event

Emoves from ruling out one explanation of the fleet's departure to accepting a second, when nothing beyond the closure's earlier date has been offered in support of it

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