easy · LSAT Logical Reasoning
Every employee who wins the Service Award receives a bonus. Sarah received a bonus this month. The speaker concludes that Sarah must therefore have won the Service Award.
Which one of the following identifies the logical error in the speaker's argument?
- It generalizes about the experience of all employees from the case of one individual.
- It treats a condition that is merely sufficient for receiving a bonus as though it were necessary for receiving one.
- It assumes that Sarah's job performance was the principal reason she received the bonus.
- It overlooks the possibility that Sarah won the Service Award during some earlier month.
- It relies on a definition of 'bonus' that shifts in the course of the argument.
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