 In this simple form the argument is vulnerable to the objection that people’s intuitions provide a poor basis for settling theoretical disputes about ontological commitments. We have seen that there are competent speakers of English, such as Michael Resnik, who don’t share these intuitions. Moreover, as Davidson’s popular analysis of action sentences in terms of events makes clear, ordinary people’s intuitions about ontological commitments cannot always be trusted (Davidson 1967). For instance, someone may sincerely assert that John walked slowly, without being aware that he has committed himself to the existence of an event (namely a walking which was by John and which was slow).