Difficult Categorical Logic Trap – UGC NET Question

The first premise places all athletes inside the set of disciplined people, guaranteeing an overlap between those categories as long as athletes exist. Therefore, some disciplined people must be athletes. The second premise concerns a subset of disciplined people who lack punctuality but does not directly specify whether that subset includes athletes. Thus, we cannot infer anything specific about athletes’ punctuality, but we can affirm that some disciplined persons are athletes.

Option A:
Option A would require that some of the non-punctual disciplined people are athletes, which the premises do not guarantee.

Option B:
Option B goes further and claims that no athlete is punctual, which is unsupported.

Option C:
Option C makes the weaker and logically certain claim that at least one disciplined person is an athlete, which follows from “all athletes are disciplined” under the assumption that athletes exist.

Option D:
Option D introduces a statement about punctual people that is not addressed by the premises and so cannot be logically concluded.