incompatible

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We will assume that they are incompatible, which is how they are generally presented, with each explicitly denying that at the foundations there is need or room for the other.

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  1. adjective Incapable of associating or blending or of being associated or blended because of disharmony, incongruity, or antagonism: incompatible views on religion.
  2. adjective Impossible to be held simultaneously by one person: the incompatible offices of prosecutor and judge.
  3. adjective Logic That cannot be simultaneously true; mutually exclusive.

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  • He knew very well that in this matter equality and diversity are nowise incompatible, and that the sexes might therefore stand or sit on the same level without standing in the same shoes or sitting in the same seats. —  Shakespeare His Life Art And Characters
  • We will assume that they are incompatible, which is how they are generally presented, with each explicitly denying that at the foundations there is need or room for the other. —  Epistemological Problems of Testimony
  • These directions may seem incompatible, and they may or may not be so in the end, but the tensions between these directions are real. —  Chinese Ethics
  • The thing that may make character a incompatible is a light or white color, since white is the furthest distance from the color black.
  • 'You don't need proof,' said Gaelen. —  The Hawk Eternal
 

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  1. Formerly also incompetible; = French incompatible = Spanish incompatible = Portuguese incompativel = Italian incompatibile; as in- + compatible.
 

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/ɪnkəmˈpætɪbl/
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