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noun- Having no common measure.

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  • One of the knottiest dimensions of Berlin's pluralism is the idea of incommensurability, which has been open to diverging interpretations.
  • A realist response to this kind of incommensurability may appeal to externalist or naturalized epistemology.
  • Kant's thesis that rational agents have a dignity and not a price is often taken to be a thesis about a kind of incommensurability, as well.
  • incommensurability between values must be distinguished from the kind of incommensurability associated with Paul Feyerabend (1978,
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