incommensurable

• “It might seem as though the idea of incommensurable alternatives does not really make sense.”

  Dynamic Choice

• “incommensurable" -- they sail past each other; the two sides are talking about different things.”

  On Abortion: A Lincolnian Position

• “The "loving anachronism" Steven Jones's happy phraseof reading Shelley with and against historical moments and political crises that are irreducibly unique and particular, "incommensurable" (Jones again), confirms those lines in Adonais (stanza 46) about the "fire" outliving the "parent spark.”

  Scrivener, Introduction

• “Faith-based belief systems are absolutely incommensurable.”

  The Huffington Post: Ted Cadsby: Defying Our Maker: What The New Atheists Miss

• “The US was resented not because it was culturally incommensurable or advocated human rights, but because it supported a despot who made it possible for the US to dominate oil interests in the Iranian economy.”

  The Huffington Post: Mahmood Delkhasteh: Clash of Civilizations Discredited

• “He argued that although the age of grand ideological struggles ended with the collapse of Soviet communism, the world had in fact regressed to a prior stage of development, which was based on the "normal" clashes that he said resulted from incommensurable forms of cultural difference.”

  The Huffington Post: Mahmood Delkhasteh: Clash of Civilizations Discredited

• “If you recall, there was a devastating earthquake in this area not long ago, in 1999, with thousands of people who suffered and incommensurable damage.”

  Largest Solar Powered Building in the World Unveiled in China

• “But, of course, there is a multitude of long views, each subjective and many incommensurable with any other.”

  "Would you like to see a little of it?" said the Mock Turtle.

• “Leandro laughs at the students chanting about the workers and opines that though some talk about ‘re-enacting’ political events, we are not Chileans, and we are not in Chile thirty-five years ago, as if our worlds are incommensurable.”

  May « 2009 « Squares of Wheat

• “Their religions, their languages, their feared atavistic criminal impulses, alas, their very essence, coalesced around the archetype of the immigrant as 'Other': incommensurable and beyond any hope of blending in or melting down no matter how much heat the melting pot could generate.”

  The Huffington Post: Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco : Memo to Bald Men

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