Self-study
Support If Agnes's research proposal is approved, the fourth-floor lab must be cleaned out for her use. ██████████ █████████ ██ ███ █████ █████ ████████ ████ ██████ ██ ██ ███ ████████ ██ █████████ ██ ████ ████████ ██ ████ ██ ███ ████████████ ████ ████ █████ █████████ ███ ████████ ████████ ████ ██ █████████ ██ █████ ███ ████████ ████ ███████ ████ ██████████ ███ ████████████ ███ ████ ██ ███████ ████
Summarize Argument
The stimulus can be diagrammed as follows:
Identify and Describe Flaw
This argument confuses the sufficient and necessary conditions. Director support is a necessary condition (not a sufficient condition) of approved proposals. Knowing that a proposal has director support doesn’t guarantee that the proposal will be approved, so we cannot conclude that the fourth-floor lab must be cleaned out.
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The argument's reasoning is flawed ███████ ███ ████████
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The argument does not compare the sizes of the labs.
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The premises tell us that director support is a necessary condition of proposal approval, and the conclusion treats director support as a sufficient condition of proposal approval. With the conditions given, director support doesn’t guarantee that the proposal will be approved.
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This is descriptively inaccurate; the argument does not make any reference to the enthusiasm with which the director will support the proposals.
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While the argument does fail to consider this, this possibility is not relevant to the argument. Immanuel’s desires do not impact this argument.
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The argument does not presume that the fourth-floor lab is the only lab for Agnes’s research––the conditions given just say that if her proposal is approved, the fourth-floor lab must be cleaned out. This doesn’t say that no other labs are adequate.