The Biscuits in the Cupboard

--- Thanks to Jason for his lovely "Words for the radio".



Austin´s example,

There are biscuits in the cupboard
(if you are hungry)



invites serious issues of pragmatics -- and the truth-conditionally idle, to echo Grandy.

In the old days of Mother Hubbard, it was bones: in the more modernised world of today, it´s dog biscuits.

"However," "assuming the conditional is addressed to a dog begs it -- but then he (the dog) was, too, right?"

Etc.