 The question has been raised, however, whether \((\ME_2)\) is sufficiently strong to support ME normativity. The trouble is that \((\ME_2)\) does not seem to place any normative constraints on the subject’s behavior. If \(x\) is green, it no longer follows that \(S\) ought to apply “green” to \(x\), whereas if \(x\) is not green it just follows that it is not the case that \(S\) ought to apply “green” to \(x\). The latter, it has been stressed, is distinct from the claim that \(S\) ought not to apply “green” to \(x\)—for instance, it is compatible with it being permissible to apply “green” to \(x\) (Bykvist &amp; Hattiangadi 2007: 280). This means that \((\ME_2)\) fails to support the claim that when \(S\) applies a term in a way that is semantically incorrect, then she has done what she ought not do: “semantically incorrect” and “ought not” thus come apart.