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

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Concluding that a hypothesis must be true because it adequately accounts for the explanandum is a form of affirming the consequent. This fallacy occurs when someone assumes that if a hypothesis is true, then its predicted consequences must also be true. However, just because a hypothesis accounts for the observed data (explanandum), it does not necessarily mean that it is the only possible explanation or that it is true.

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