| Why do people say you cannot compare things, that they are incommensurable, when they are so obviously comparable or commensurable? |
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| I argued earlier that ghosts to a certain extent spell out incommensurable cultural differences. |
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| It is comforting to consider that real change will be thoroughly unexpected, even incommensurable from the perspective of the present. |
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| Without this, the meaning of basic terms will continue to differ, and the research will continue to be incommensurable. |
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| The new social agenda is to recognize and insist on individual varieties, incommensurable differences. |
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| At other times, the children's comments suggest irreconcilable differences and utterly incommensurable world views. |
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| Languages of those in different parts of the power structure are incommensurable making conversation across lines impossible. |
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| One is a case of a scholar hosting an empathetically cooperative conversation among two seemingly incommensurable identities. |
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| The pressures of the classroom moment do not lend themselves to a dialogue about these underlying and indeed incommensurable differences. |
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| After all, theoretical purists reject the idea that we should lump different and incommensurable arguments into one broad sweep. |
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| Book five lays out the work of Eudoxus on proportion applied to commensurable and incommensurable magnitudes. |
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| It leads to the incommensurable relations, which cannot be represented in a rational form. |
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| There were no terms in the Renaissance for what, since the eighteenth century, have been construed as essential signs in the body of incommensurable difference. |
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| Rather, it is because some, though not all, values are incommensurable. |
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| Universities boast of their positions in various league tables, lumping together incommensurable metrics and weighting them whimsically. |
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| These may be representable on a single vector or on a number of distinct vectors if the person has distinct and incommensurable satisfactions and enjoyments. |
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| And this is owing to the fact that, while we wanted to overcome temptation, we also wanted to fail, for quite different and incommensurable reasons. |
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| Similarly, we only know that a diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side if we know that there are squares and that squares have diagonals. |
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| The numbers 12 and 18 are commensurable, as both are divisible by 6, while 12 and 19 are incommensurable. |
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| According to this school of thought, each ethnic group has a distinct worldview that is incommensurable with the worldviews of other groups. |
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| The tropical year and the synodic month are incommensurable, 12 synodic months amounting to 354.36706 days, almost 11 days shorter than the tropical year. |
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| The Throne speech was characterized by its incommensurable methodological scope as a structuring orientation on the state of the Nation. |
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| The crux is that the experience of surfing is incommensurable while the task of writing is to make things commensurable – or to render the incommensurable with precision. |
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| It was also the time to underline that the amount of money necessary for this is incommensurable with the amount recently spent to bail out the banking sector. |
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| There is punctual repression, but on the whole it is not incommensurable. |
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