 Truth, perhaps even more than beauty and goodness, has been the target of an extraordinary amount of philosophical dissection and speculation. By comparison with truth, the more complex and much more interesting concept of truthlikeness has only recently become the subject of serious investigation. The logical problem of truthlikeness is to give a consistent and materially adequate account of the concept. But first, we have to make it plausible that there is a coherent concept in the offing to be investigated.