 The publication of Barwise 1981 in the Journal of Philosophy was followed by two papers providing commentary: Higginbotham 1983 in the same journal, and Vlach 1983 in Synthese. The peer verdict on situations was that they were not needed for the semantics of direct perception reports: the facts could just as well be explained by Davidsonian event semantics. (Davidson 1967a, 1980. See the entries  Donald Davidson  and  events.)  In fact, Barwise’s argument showing that direct perception see selects a situation is very much like Davidson’s argument showing that the verb cause expresses a relation between events (Davidson 1967b, 1980). Comparison with Davidsonian event semantics has been an issue for situation semantics throughout its history. The relation between situation semantics and Davidsonian event semantics will be taken up in section 9.