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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.

The argument does not compare the sizes of the labs.

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.

This is descriptively inaccurate; the argument does not make any reference to the enthusiasm with which the director will support the proposals.

While the argument does fail to consider this, this possibility is not relevant to the argument. Immanuel’s desires do not impact this argument.

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.

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