 The objection to the first proposal is this. If the incomparability of ends can be resolved by experience, this suggests that the judgment of incomparability reflects incomplete knowledge about the values expressed in these ends. In other words, experience seems to help only if the values expressed in these ends are themselves comparable (1997, 168). Millgram responds as follows. The agent who uses her experience to develop a coherent conception of what matters is like the painter who uses her experience to paint a picture that is not a copy of an existing image. Even if the ends are comparable in her conception of what matters, the values they reflect need not be comparable just as the painting need not be an exact copy of an existing image.