 Clearly, in these sorts of cases, Stevenson sees the relevant people as disagreeing in an important sense, despite the fact that they see no point in engaging or in arguing with each other. Indeed, he then goes on to point out that in certain kind of circumstances (e.g., when concerted social action is needed) the motives for arguing in a way that “may change disagreement in attitude to agreement” become manifold—thus implicitly applying the notion of a disagreement in attitude also to a mere conflict of attitudes (1944, 112).