It is important to note, however, that in any other kind of case than the “paradigm” one, the putative elementary point is not obvious at all. For instance, it is entirely unclear in what sense Special Relativity Theory “has more ways of being false” than Lorentz’s version of the æther theory, given that they make the same predictions. And yet the former is generally regarded as being superior, qua explanation, to the latter. (If van Fraassen were to object that the former is not really more inf