 Here again, Neale’s theory predicts that this sentence has a reading on which its truth requires that some woman beats every donkey she owns. And again, even if we imagine the sentence being uttered without any particular woman or donkey in mind, we don’t get this reading of the sentence predicted by Neale’s theory, (say we are discussing women’s tendencies towards animals they own, and one of us utters (41) simply thinking it is statistically likely to be true). So Neale’s account has no explanation as to why the second sentence of discourse (25a) and sentence (41) lack the relevant readings assigned to those sentences by his theory.[26]