(1) It cannot be simply dismissed as incommensurable .(2) Two periods of history inherently have such vastly different contexts, issues, and circumstances that they may be incommensurable ; thus the specter of anachronism haunts every turn.(3) Difference in such cases is not disagreement, at least on the surface issue; points of view that are incommensurable are different in the very frameworks of explanation.(4) The new social agenda is to recognize and insist on individual varieties, incommensurable differences.(5) Book five lays out the work of Eudoxus on proportion applied to commensurable and incommensurable magnitudes.(6) After all, theoretical purists reject the idea that we should lump different and incommensurable arguments into one broad sweep.(7) 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.(8) Without this, the meaning of basic terms will continue to differ, and the research will continue to be incommensurable .(9) 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.(10) 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.(11) u2018Isu2019 and u2018oughtu2019 seem to come from different, incommensurable worlds.(12) These are moral choices which are incommensurable because they appeal on different levels - they are not competing in a logical way, because they are both choices that could be right to a reasonable person.(13) The two goals - reflecting the two sides of modern democratic individualism - were finally incommensurable .(14) At other times, the children's comments suggest irreconcilable differences and utterly incommensurable world views.(15) 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.(16) The pressures of the classroom moment do not lend themselves to a dialogue about these underlying and indeed incommensurable differences.
