Concluding That a Hypothesis Must Be True Because It Adequately

question 37

Multiple Choice

Concluding that a hypothesis must be true because it adequately accounts for the explanandum commits which of the following fallacies?

• A)division
• B)appeal to majority
• C)undistributed middle
• D)affirming the consequent
• E)denying the antecedent

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