Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The property of being incommensurable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being incommensurable.
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- noun The state or characteristic of being
incommensurable .
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Examples
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One of the knottiest dimensions of Berlin's pluralism is the idea of incommensurability, which has been open to diverging interpretations.
Isaiah Berlin Cherniss, Joshua 2008
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Kant's thesis that rational agents have a dignity and not a price is often taken to be a thesis about a kind of incommensurability, as well.
Value Theory Schroeder, Mark 2008
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Hippasus of Metapontum, who was thought by many to have demonstrated this kind of incommensurability, is held by legend to have been drowned by the gods for revealing his discovery (Heath 1921, 154; von Fritz 1970, 407).
Incommensurable Values Hsieh, Nien-hê 2007
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A realist response to this kind of incommensurability may appeal to externalist or naturalized epistemology.
Thomas Kuhn Bird, Alexander 2004
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Incommensurability between values must be distinguished from the kind of incommensurability associated with Paul Feyerabend (1978,
Incommensurable Values Hsieh, Nien-hê 2007
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But, interestingly, the whole question of incommensurability and incomparability is at the center of a new paper I am completing on the vexed issue of proportionality in the laws of war.
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To my disappointment, his book ends up being more a primer on eight major world religions -- a useful and generally reliable primer, it should be said -- than a sustained examination of the incommensurability of the world's religions.
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To my disappointment, his book ends up being more a primer on eight major world religions -- a useful and generally reliable primer, it should be said -- than a sustained examination of the incommensurability of the world's religions.
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Life — exploits the confrontation with thought and feeling for all it's worth, an exploitation that subsequent years and thinkers will take in unimagined and unthinkable ways, in order to make all kinds of cultural profit, yet also to confront the incommensurability of thought itself, the place where our embodied experience of the world becomes the site of an uncanny, traumatic, apparitional encounter.
Introduction 2008
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In Berlin's hands, as Gellner saw it, "the history of ideas," Mr. Hall writes, "became something of a game, in which thinkers were damned as dangerous because anti-pluralist or praised for endorsing the incommensurability of values."
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