 Stevenson’s aim was that of “sharpening the tools” for the “legislators, editorialists, didactic novelists, clergymen, and moral philosophers” addressing ethical (and other normative) questions (1944,1). It is an interesting question how, precisely, the sharpened tools would help us in addressing such questions of normative ethics (Stevenson doesn’t say very much about this, but see 1944, Ch. 15) Quite independently of this issue, though, Stevenson’s insights into how moral problems arise and are dealt with in our lives as social, communicative beings, are of seminal importance to the development of metaethics.