 As discussed above, social practices and institutions play a role in the inquiry into value incommensurability and incomparability. They are claimed by some philosophers to ground the possibility of these phenomena as in the case of constitutive incommensurability (subsection 3.2), and to help resolve value conflicts, as in the case of providing external resources for practical reason (subsection 4.4). This section discusses additional areas in which considerations about social institutions intersect with the inquiry at hand.