 While Marty ascribes to statements the communicative function (and thus in one, normatively viewed, sense the meaning) “that one should judge as the speaker does”, he points out that a demand on the interlocutor’s will is not thereby made as it is in the case of certain other linguistic expressions, e.g. commands. A statement is, by contrast to these, only “a suggestive of judging” (ein Suggestiv zum Urteilen) (Marty 1908a 288). Moreover, there are certain aspects of the judgment which cannot be communicated in a statement, namely whether the judgment is evident or blind and whether it is apodictic or assertoric (Marty 1908a 289 ff.). As Marty further elaborates, he says: