 Clapp 2002 argues that Larson and Ludlow’s account violates Davidson’s constraint that the truth condition of a sentence is a function of the values of its constituent syntactic units and thus, Clapp argues, the account as a whole fails to provide an account of our semantic competence. Soames makes a similar point in his 2002, pp. 150–2, where he argues that Larson and Ludlow’s account fails when viewed as a part of the Davidsonian project of accounting for the meanings of sentences, and thus accounting for what speakers know in virtue of which they can understand arbitrary sentences with which they are competent, in terms of offering a Tarskian truth theory for the language.