Let us take a look at this tour de force. This is because objects, both perceptually and cognitively, remain particular and individual, i.e., have particular characteristics, and exist in space and time. Carol Kates' important contribution is apparent here. This notion that generic reference is transformed into observable intentional structures gets empiricists in the language sciences off the hook. It gives them a new and powerful tool to investigate language use, linguistic intuition, communicative competence, and speech acts.
Logical truths exist as real, but ideal structures, and are available for observation in experience.
In other words, communicative competence is a matching skill between individual and generic, both being given in experience . First, there must occur an intentional structure in experience, such as when the context or the topic focus is perceived and a comment or reaction is elicited, either in speech or in thought and imagination. These intentional structures are built up in experience and acquired through bracketing operations, as pointed out before. Third, there must be individual acts of performance or presentation which make use of these stock patterns. In summary, Kates' proposal analyzes communicative competence into a threefold unit of behavior.