ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I consider two-party disputes of the following form:
A: X is a case of romantic love.
B: X is not a case of romantic love.
I explore the possibility and significance of diagnosing a merely verbal dispute in such situations. First I suggest that this is indeed quite a plausible diagnosis in many cases, where the disputants appear to deploy different concepts of romantic love. I go on to argue that such disputes may furthermore be classified as (what I have elsewhere called) serious verbal disputes, if one of the concepts in question is flawed, failing to accurately map reality, and hence potentially serving to create and sustain forms of injustice and oppression.