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Example: an irishman arguing with a mongolian over what dragons look like.
When the Irishman is a painter and the Mongolian a dissatisfied customer, does their disagreement have meaning?
In that case, they're arguing about the wrong thing. Their real dispute is that the painting isn't what the Mongolian wanted as a result of a miscommunication which neither of them noticed until one of them had spent money (or promised to) and the other had spent days painting.
So, no, even in that situation, there's no such thing as a dragon, so they might as well be arguing about the migratory patterns of unicorns.