commensurable

How To Use commensurable In A Sentence

• There is force in the argument that to permit reference in libel cases to conventional levels of award in personal injury cases is simply to admit yet another incommensurable into the field of consideration.
• The pressures of the classroom moment do not lend themselves to a dialogue about these underlying and indeed incommensurable differences.
• The incommensurable is mentioned over and over again, but the case mentioned is that of the diagonal of a square in relation to its side; there is no allusion to the extension of the theory to other cases by Theodorus and Theaetetus…
• 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