incommensurable

• Normally our universes are incommensurable, i.e., slide past one another without touching, and as a result our lives are blissful. —  FSFDec2003
• Thomas Laqueur describes the evolution from a one-sex model, in which male and female were considered to be biologically similar, to a two-sex model, in which “there are two stable, incommensurable, opposite sexes and ... the lives of men and women, their gender roles, are somehow based on these ‘facts’”. —  Strange Horizons, Dec '01
• He argued that falsification had played little part in such revolutions, because rival world views are incommensurable - he argued that it is impossible to understand one paradigm through the concepts and terminology of another. —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
• Weber famously described how the force of rationalization shatters life into several distinct value spheres, ultimately incommensurable arenas of experience, among which we move, without ever achieving integration. —  TELOSscope: The Telos Press blog
• The book contains much else, e.g., excellent discussions of how a libertarian anarchist society would handle disasters and whether disagreements between libertarians and advocates of other political views are "incommensurable." —  Mises Dailies

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