 Suppose that in fact it is hot, rainy and windy (expressed by the maximal conjunction \(h \amp r \amp w)\). Then the claim that it is cold, dry and still (expressed by the sentence \({\sim}h \amp{\sim}r \amp{\sim}w)\) is further from the truth than the claim that it is cold, rainy and windy (expressed by the sentence \({\sim}h \amp r \amp w)\). And the claim that it is cold, dry and windy (expressed by the sentence \({\sim}h \amp{\sim}r \amp w)\) is somewhere between the two. These kinds of judgements, which seem both innocent and intuitively correct, Popper’s theory cannot accommodate. And if they are to be accommodated we cannot treat all true and false consequences alike. For the three false claims mentioned here have exactly the same number of true and false consequences (this is the problem we called the relative worthlessness of all falsehoods).