 The above conclusion might look inevitable, but it is not. It is true that on the Austinian view, my utterance of (17) is interpreted as a claim about Bear Sighting. To see that we can nevertheless get the desired interpretation, we need to look at technical details. 18(a) gives a plausible interpretation of the possibility modal in (17) within a possibilistic situation semantics. 18(b) is the interpretation of the whole sentence (17) before the Austinian component comes into play: