[3] Philosopher of language Peter Strawson (1919–2006) advocated the use of the term "statement" in sense (2) in preference to proposition.
The third and fourth are declarative sentences but, lacking meaning, are neither true nor false and therefore are not (or do not make) statements.
The fifth and sixth examples are meaningful declarative sentences, but are not statements but rather matters of opinion or taste.
[citation needed] In some treatments, "statement" is introduced in order to distinguish a sentence from its informational content.
Thus, a sentence is related to the statement it bears like a numeral to the number it refers to.