Why? We know that there are rumors that the Premier will reshuffle the cabinet this week. But, we are told that all the reshuffles before were preceded by meetings between the Premier and senior cabinet members and no such meetings have occurred or are scheduled.
So, since an occurrence that is expected to happen if the rumors were true does not happen, then we are concluding that the rumors are not true.
In other words, answer choice (B): "A hypothesis (that the Premier will reshuffle the cabinet this week) is undermined when a state of affairs does not obtain that would be expected to obtain (no meeting between the Premier and senior cabinet members has been scheduled, even though all previous reshufflings were preceded by such a meeting) if the hypothesis were true."
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