ABSTRACT
This chapter should be read with the immediately following chapter on assessing inferences. Philosophers are interested in the truth of claims and therefore with the assessment of claims-with what makes them true (if they are true), with how likely they are to be true, and especially with what accounts for that likelihood. They are also concerned with the reliability of inferences from claims known or believed to be true to other claims the truth of which they wonder about--the topic of the next chapter.
