ADJECTIVE
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capable of being measured by a common standard
hours and minutes are commensurable
How To Use commensurable In A Sentence
- Other than value counted in units of money, there's no commensurable way of talking about it.
- The service of the members of the Committee is commensurable to the service of the Board of Directors.
- It offers production potential accessible to all countries and commensurable to their needs.
- The truth, of course, is that in putting a money value on the prospective balance of happiness in years that the deceased might otherwise have lived, the jury or judge of fact is attempting to equate incommensurables.
- Without this, the meaning of basic terms will continue to differ, and the research will continue to be incommensurable.
- Modern utilitarians are right to insist that utility is not reducible to pleasure, and that not all kinds of utility are measurable or commensurable, and that it is not always appropriate even to try to measure these utilities.
- Words and their meanings are not entirely commensurable.
- These are just some examples of kinds of incomparability and incommensurability; a more detailed discussion of the commensurability of values can be found in the entry on incommensurable values. Value Theory
- The opponents and proponents of enclosure are currently locked in battle, each appealing to conflicting and sometimes incommensurable claims about efficiency, innovation, justice, and the limits of the market.
- The pressures of the classroom moment do not lend themselves to a dialogue about these underlying and indeed incommensurable differences.