 Not everyone who writes about standing uses the term in the same way. As best we can tell, there are three distinct usages of the term, and this has resulted in theorists sometimes talking past each other. Everyone seems to agree that ‘standing’ is a label to be applied to some fact about the blamer that enables appropriate blame (or, more modestly, that ‘lack of standing’ is a label to be applied to some fact about the blamer that renders blame inappropriate). But from that common foundation, usage diverges.