The indicative or constative statements are expressing the states of affairs of the phenomenal world. These can be judged as either true or false. He further evinced that metaphysical statements are not meaningful statements because they cannot be judged as either true or false. Equating meaning with truth and falsity of a statement, he conveyed that it is nothing but the description of the empirical fact. A statement bereft of truth-value cannot be considered as a meaningful statement. The reason is every statement needs verification through our sense experiences or observational sense-data⁴ to become significant and thereby meaningful.

Let's consider a case where one utters a statement "God is good". This statement cannot be verified by our sense experiences. So it cannot be judged as either true or false by principle. But can we say that this is a meaningless statement? In this context, Austin argued that there are statements, which cannot be judged as either true or false, yet they are meaningful sentences. It is because they convey an action which can be judged as either 'happy' or 'unhappy'. For example: "I do", "I promise", etc. Here we find the action called 'eating' in the first statement. So uttering a statement and performing an action are not two different things. Uttering the sentence entails performing the action. However, it is not free from certain objections.

There are some objections posed on the description of an action. These are;

Certain actions are performed by the spiritual act.
Some actions are solely relied on the mental activity of an individual.

⁴	The phrase 'Observational Sense-data' has introduced by Bertrand Russell in his paper "Descriptions". See, Russell, B. (1965). Descriptions. In Robert R. Ammermann (Ed.), Classics of Analytic Philosophy (pp.15-24). New Delhi: Tata McGraw-Hill Publishing Company Ltd.