ABSTRACT
Where two actors (they may be individuals, organizations or states) arrive at incompatible desires by taking different reference-groups (see I.3.C for this concept) it may be possible to resolve the conflict if they both take a wider reference-group, which includes them both. For example, if I have set my price by deciding what would suit me best and you have set your offer by deciding what would suit you best we may both decide spontaneously that a ‘fair’ price (taking both of us as a reference group) would be something between my privately-oriented price and your privately-oriented offer. This would then become our first preference and we would have arrived at a ‘spontaneous coincidence of wills’.
