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“Incommensurable Alternatives and Rational Choice,” Ratio, 18/3: 249-61.
Dynamic Choice Andreou, Chrisoula 2007
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(Note that, as is standard in dynamic choice theory, the discussion in this entry leaves room for non-selfish preferences and concerns; it thus leaves room for the possibility that one can be determined to serve one's preferences and concerns as well as possible without being an egoist.) 1.1 Incommensurable Alternatives
Dynamic Choice Andreou, Chrisoula 2007
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Hence the Theory of Incommensurable Magnitudes was omitted, though, as the author himself said in the Preface, to do so rendered the work incomplete, and, from a logical point of view, valueless.
The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (Rev. C. L. Dodgson) Stuart Dodgson Collingwood 1903
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The Incommensurable Banner, Hirschhorn's almost unbearably painful meditation on the wars of the last decade, which Miller helped curate at Fabrica as part of the 2008 Brighton Photo Biennial, was key to the Swiss artist winning the 2011 Kurt Schwitters prize.
The Guardian World News Fiachra Gibbons 2011
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1998, “Incommensurable Goods, Rightful Lies, and the Wrongness of Fraud”, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 146: 1529-1567.
Incommensurable Values Hsieh, Nien-hê 2007
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In both alike there is the same suggestion of the Infinite of disparity bounding the finite of resemblance ” of the Incommensurable in man and nature, beside which all minor uniformities sink into insignificance.
Sterne Traill, H D 1882
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