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ID: LSAT-LR-193
Section: Logical Reasoning
Topic: Method of Reasoning
Difficulty level: Hard

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Beekeeper: Our neighbours put the slow build-up in our hives down to the wet spring, saying it must have kept the bees in. But a colony that cannot forage rears less brood, and our April frames held as much sealed brood as ever. So the bees were not kept in. Whatever slowed the build-up did so after the brood was sealed.

Which one of the following most accurately describes the method of reasoning used in the beekeeper's argument?

AIt infers from the time at which an effect first appeared that the explanation offered for it is mistaken.

BIt distinguishes two possible causes of a single outcome and rules out the one that would have acted the earlier.

CIt uses a general relationship to show a condition the explanation needs was absent, and then takes the same evidence to fix when the effect must have begun.

DIt undermines an explanation by casting doubt on the accuracy of the observation behind it.

EIt denies that a reported circumstance obtained, and rests the denial on a consequence it would have had that did not appear.

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