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The author concludes that James misled the committee when he said his proposal was approved by the chair of the anthropology department. This is because the chair said she would only endorse his proposal if his draft included all recommendations he would make to the committee.
The argument lays out a necessary condition for the proposal’s endorsement: that it contain all the final recommendations James would make to the committee. The argument is attempting to take the contrapositive of this statement in order to show that James’ proposal was not endorsed and he misled the committee, but we don’t actually know if he failed the necessary condition. This failed condition is what the author is assuming—that the proposal did not contain all of James’ final recommendations.
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