Starting with Popper, philosophers and logicians have proposed different
accounts of verisimilitude or truthlikeness. One way of classifying such accounts is
to distinguish between "conjunctive" and "disjunctive" ones. In this paper, we focus
on our own "basic feature" approach to verisimilitude, which naturally belongs to
the conjunctive family. We start by surveying the landscape of conjunctive accounts;
then, we introduce two new measures of verisimilitude and discuss their properties;
finally, we conclude by hinting at some surprising relations between our conjunctive
approach and a disjunctive account of verisimilitude widely discussed in the
literature.
