incommensurable

How To Use incommensurable In A Sentence

• Yet for all the cosmopolitan complexity of this interlingual exercise, this zone of reading appears to be incommensurable with the broadened geopolitical terrain and heightened speeds of globalization suggested by the piece.
• 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.
• The two goals - reflecting the two sides of modern democratic individualism - were finally incommensurable.
• At other times, the children's comments suggest irreconcilable differences and utterly incommensurable world views.
• Book five lays out the work of Eudoxus on proportion applied to commensurable and incommensurable magnitudes.
• The pressures of the classroom moment do not lend themselves to a dialogue about these underlying and indeed incommensurable differences.
• 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.
• 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
• Without this, the meaning of basic terms will continue to differ, and the research will continue to be incommensurable.
• 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.