 Let’s start with the putative value of truth. Truth is not, of course, a good-making property of the objects of belief states. The proposition \(h \amp r \amp w\) is not a better proposition when it happens to be hot, rainy and windy than when it happens to be cold, dry and still. Rather, the cognitive state of believing \(h \amp r \amp w\) is often deemed to be a good state to be in if the proposition is true, not good if it is false. So the state of believing truly is better than the state of believing falsely.