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Meanings of incommensurable in English

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Usage of incommensurable in English
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When will economists give up their forlorn attempts to measure the incommensurable?
The Tyranny Of Words
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ATHENIAN: The natures of commensurable and incommensurable quantities in their relation to one another.
Laws
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Cost here becomes something entirely irrelevant, the returns are sure to be so incommensurable.
Memories and Studies
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The two things are not merely different, they are incommensurable.
Considerations on Representative Government
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The company is positively staking against the incommensurable.
Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General
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The similarity between many phases of their lives is remarkable, and their works are not incommensurable.
The Book of American Negro Poetry
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Universities boast of their positions in various league tables, lumping together incommensurable metrics and weighting them whimsically.
The Guardian
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Their successes and failures would be incommensurable.
The Moral Economy
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He gossips, jokes and cites Max Weber and Jean-Paul Sartre and uses words like "incommensurable".
The Guardian
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Incalculable, incomprehensible, incommensurable: yes, all souls, the least and greatest, attack them as we will, are that.
The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti
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Without undertaking to measure and compare what is incommensurable, I hold that Goethe's genius is essentially lyrical.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13: Great Writers / Dr Lord's U...
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Audacity can exist without physical or moral courage, for these character traits are of a different, incommensurable order.
The book of disquiet
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For us with the standard of good and evil given us by Christ, no human actions are incommensurable.
War and Peace
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A fancy way of putting this is to say that the side and diagonal of a square are incommensurable.
The Irish Times
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For he has not told everything; this incommensurable region, which had hitherto remained unworked, is far from being exhausted.
Fabre, Poet of Science
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Are pleasures and pains incommensurable?
Problems of Conduct: An Introductory Survey of Ethics
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