It might seem as though the idea of incommensurable alternatives does not really make sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dynamic Choice] Reference

"incommensurable" -- they sail past each other; the two sides are talking about different things.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Abortion: A Lincolnian Position] Reference

But, after all, she is incommensurable with her cousin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guermantes Way] Reference

If (a) they are incommensurable the same reasoning holds.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Heavens] Reference

These are incommensurable problems in this type of world.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Net Wizard's Handbook, Second Edition by Jim Gitzlaff and Staff] Reference

For Herder there is a plurality of incommensurable cultures.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE COUNTER-ENLIGHTENMENT] Reference

The two things are not merely different, they are incommensurable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Representative Government] Reference

The term “incommensurable” suggests the lack of a common measure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incommensurable Values] Reference

Neither has to yield its most cherished – and incommensurable – beliefs.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Quicklink: A Talmudic Precedent for a Just Solution to the Israel-Palestinian Conflict] Reference

Pleasures, the critics of utili - tarianism insisted, are incommensurable.    From Wordnik.com.  [UTILITARIANISM] Reference

Neither has to yield its most cherished – and incommensurable – beliefs. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [OpEdNews - Quicklink: A Talmudic Precedent for a Just Solution to the Israel-Palestinian Conflict] Reference

The legal career and the musical career, according to Raz, are incommensurable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incommensurable Values] Reference

But is there any reason to believe that there are incommensurable alternatives?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dynamic Choice] Reference

Fifth, solar energy, on the other hand, has a unique and incommensurable advantage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Energy and economic myths (historical)] Reference

They are both works of art, but involve different and incommensurable aesthetic values.    From Wordnik.com.  [Value Pluralism] Reference

Second, if goods are incommensurable, it is not why an exchange of those goods is unfair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exploitation] Reference

Let us first consider situations that involve choosing between incommensurable alternatives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dynamic Choice] Reference

The natures of commensurable and incommensurable quantities in their relation to one another.    From Wordnik.com.  [Laws] Reference

And thought could not give an answer to my question — it is incommensurable with my question.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anna Karenina] Reference

Comparing one good with another is, we usually say, impossible because goods are incommensurable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tragedy of the Commons (historical)] Reference

Richardson acknowledges that the moral considerations underlying Sophie™s dilemma are not incommensurable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incommensurable Values] Reference

Call it recognition that the evil she did was in some incommensurable way offset by the good she did, if you will.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Moral Meltdown In America.] Reference

His good qualities belong chiefly to the man, his bad to the Englishman and the peer, his talent is incommensurable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference

But it might also depend on a theory, developed to explain such observations, that the frameworks are incommensurable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moral Relativism] Reference

Not all authors, however, regard all value conflicts involving incommensurable values as tragic (Richardson 1994, 117).    From Wordnik.com.  [Incommensurable Values] Reference

One is the Davidsonian approach, already considered, that precludes the possibility of incommensurable moral frameworks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moral Relativism] Reference

The question then arises whether bearers of value can be comparable even though the values they bear are incommensurable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incommensurable Values] Reference

Such an exclusion of values should be rejected favouring instead the acceptance of a plurality of incommensurable values.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herman Daly Festschrift~ Socially Sustainable Economic Degrowth] Reference

Raz™s account appears to illustrate a basic sense in which the values of money and companionship can be incommensurable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incommensurable Values] Reference

In other words, we cannot decide between incommensurable values on moral grounds, so we should decide on prudential grounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Value Pluralism] Reference

All compete for our allegiance, but because they are incommensurable, no choice can be interpersonally justified as correct.    From Wordnik.com.  [Liberalism] Reference

But if B1 is incommensurable with B2, then Abraham could, once at the foot of the mountain, easily decide to opt for B1 over B2.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dynamic Choice] Reference

In this manner, the incomparability of bearers of value has been taken to support the possibility that values are incommensurable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incommensurable Values] Reference

There are too many secular, as well as periodic influences combining, to produce the effect; and the times are too incommensurable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence] Reference

In this case, “what has symbolic significance is the very judgment that companionship is incommensurable with money” (1986, 350).    From Wordnik.com.  [Incommensurable Values] Reference