I did not wish to maintain that, even as to the conflicts within modalities, the decider had to consult some parameter to make a decision; I argue only that the parameter can be derived. So the lack of a parallel parameter when the modalities conflict tells us something about the kind of decision being made-that it is among incommensurables-but nothing about whether a decision is possible or not.

DEFINE: Clarifies the concept of a modal conflict: a decision among incommensurables, where no parameter is derivable, yet decision remains possible.

Philip Chase Bobbitt, Philip Chase Bobbitt - Refl…, loc. 426