We now turn to Stevenson's account of emotive meaning. Perhaps the first thing that should be said on this topic is that Stevenson's employment of the term "emotive meaning" and his distinction between emotive meaning and descriptive meaning were not responses on his part to any problems about meaning, but were intended as a way of coming to grips with certain psychological matters that are involved in the use of language. It is no hypothesis or theory of Stevenson's that meaning consists of psychological factors connected with sign use; rather, it is his concern to discuss psychological factors connected with sign use—primarily, emotive (i.e. conative-affective) and cognitive factors—and for this purpose he appropriates the rather loose term "meaning" and uses it in a specially defined "pragmatic" sense.