As might be apparent, whereas the truth of wishes depends on there actually being a desire for the thing wished for, the ‘truth’ of commands, like stipulations, is inherent in the statement itself. This shows that stipulations and commands do not actually make claims to fact of the sort that we bother calling “true” or “false” because there is no way they can ever be false in our usual understanding. Rather, they can only be fulfilled or unfulfilled—or more fundamentally, they can be meaningful or meaningless:
