 One well-known text in this area solves the problem by developing a new hybrid term. In their book, Deciding for Others, Allen Buchanan and Dan Brock write that, “competence is competence for some task, competence to do something” (Buchanan &amp; Brock 1989: 84; emphasis in original). They then specify their own focus, which is “competence to make a decision” (Ibid). This leads to a lengthy discussion of what the authors call “decision-making competence” and its standards, as well as the specific “decision-making capacities” that are said to underlie what they call “decisional competence”. According to this strategy, the introduction of a new term—“decisional competence” is the proposed solution. Unfortunately, this stipulative solution arguably compounds rather than simplifies the problem, since it is more common to speak of “decisional capacity” than “decisional competence”.