ABSTRACT
In Part I, I argued that we could have reason to believe that science, or at least reasonably large chunks of it, does provide a fairly accurate representation of aspects of the world. More precisely, we are justified in believing that our best theories have a high degree of what is called verisimilitude in their representations of the laws of nature and other lawlike facts. Two theories can both be strictly false, yet one can be better than the other by virtue of being closer to the truth-which is expressed by saying that it has greater verisimilitude. We will need to take account of this.
