S. and W. argue (i) that the goals of generative linguistic theory were well defined but misguided because of the avoidance of the problem of performance; (ii) that the goals of generative semantics were not well defined and that its looking to logic to find what linguistics did not offer, was mistaken; and (iii) that instead a number of basic human competencies - in the field of language understanding in context - ought to be introduced, which cannot be described within the dominant paradigm.