 Strawson also noted that Cook Wilson’s argument for differentiating between the logical subject/predicate and metaphysical subject/attribute distinctions involves an appeal to ‘‘pragmatic considerations’’ (Strawson 1957, 476). Cook Wilson’s claim that a sentence such as ‘glass is elastic’ may state something different depending on the occasion in which it is used also had an important continuation in J. L. Austin’s more general point that, although the meaning of words plays a role in determining truth-conditions, it is not an exhaustive one: it “does not fix for them a truth-condition” because that depends on how truth is to be decided on the occasion of their use (see Travis (1996, 451) and Kalderon &amp; Travis (2013, 492 &amp; 496)):