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Hi Dave,
I'm having trouble with understanding the language used to describe answer choice B. Particularly, I don't understand how it correlates to your explanation of a false choice. When I read the answer, it feels like it's missing something on the end ("one possible reason for that view is insufficient..."). Can you please maybe give an example of another way of saying answer choice B is.
(B) says that the argument has tried to refute a claim [the claim that the Math dept should get the course] by pointing out that the simple fact of a course's having math in it does not by itself mean that course belongs to the Math dept. It shows that one possible reason is insufficient.
The whole thing's false-choicey because it's acting in the same way as every false choice flaw does; assuming that eliminating one option (or one set of options) is the same as eliminating all options.
It's also totally legitimate to call it an Absence of Evidence error—pointing out that one argument in favor of a claim is insufficient doesn't mean that there are no arguments in favor!—and this kind of illustrates the fact that it's possible to see many of these arguments through multiple valid lenses.
At the end of the day, what matters is that you have a systematic means of dispensing with these questions so that you get through them quickly and have time for the difficult questions that require analysis.