 If, however, the discourse is about royal baldness in general, for instance, the grammatical subject of (46) is used to say something about that topic, and Strawson’s account predicts that the sentence is more likely to be judged false, which seems correct. Another observation that neatly falls into place is that word order may have an effect on speakers’ intuitions about presupposition failure. As Strawson observes, if we compare (45b) with (47), where the defective description is in subject position, we would be “a shade more squeamish” to say that the sentence is simply false (p. 91). This is precisely what one should expect if speakers’ intuitions were topic-dependent.