The latter view presupposes at least some measure of commensurability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Value] Reference

Donald Regan defends the thesis of strong commensurability (Regan 1997).    From Wordnik.com.  [Incommensurable Values] Reference

Millgram argues that value commensurability is not a prerequisite for deliberation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incommensurable Values] Reference

Philosophical support for this thought involves an idea of practical commensurability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moral Reasoning] Reference

Hence commensurability, at least on the non-theoretical level, is insured by definition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Structuralism in Physics] Reference

Millgram proposes two ways in which deliberation results in the commensurability of ends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incommensurable Values] Reference

Are we, then, to find the commensurability in the subject of the affection or in the affection itself?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Physics] Reference

As discussed above in subsection 3.1, the comparability of goods need not entail value commensurability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incommensurable Values] Reference

Page 279, Volume 4 commensurability of different individuals 'utilities or on the form of social welfare function.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Nor will the commensurability, therefore; hence this eternally is not, because it is contrary to what eternally is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Physics] Reference

Sidgwick's explicitness, here, is valuable also in helping one see how to resist the demand for deliberative commensurability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moral Reasoning] Reference

Making sense of a situation in which neither of two duties overrides the other is easier if normative commensurability is denied.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moral Reasoning] Reference

The last decade has seen many attempts to carry out multiple criterion synchronization without assuming such commensurability (see below).    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservation Biology] Reference

According to Richardson, the idea that value commensurability is a prerequisite for rational choice seems to rule out rational deliberation about ends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incommensurable Values] Reference

We need to distinguish, here, two kinds of practical commensurability or incommensurability, one defined in metaphysical terms and one in deliberative terms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moral Reasoning] Reference

The commensurability of the motion of heavenly bodies raises an additional concern, having to do with the uniqueness of individual beings and the doctrine of eternal return.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gersonides] Reference

The issue of metaphysical and epistemological commensurability involves the comparison of traditions on their conceptions of the real and their modes of inquiry and justification.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comparative Philosophy: Chinese and Western] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Value Theory] Reference

Weak commensurability is the thesis that in any given conflict of values, there is a true ranking of the realization of one value against the realization of the other value in terms of some value.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incommensurable Values] Reference

For visible beauty, for works of architecture or sculpture, symmetria, that is, commensurability, was the principal term; for audible beauty, for musical works it was harmonia, that is, consonance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Strong commensurability is the thesis that there is a true ranking of the realization of one value against the realization of the other value in terms of one common value across all conflicts of value.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incommensurable Values] Reference

For number qua number has peculiar attributes, such as oddness and evenness, commensurability and equality, excess and defect, and these belong to numbers either in themselves or in relation to one another.    From Wordnik.com.  [Metaphysics] Reference

Second, leaving aside the issue of the commensurability of ends, more needs to be said about what is required to deliberate rationally about what matters when that deliberation involves incommensurable values.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incommensurable Values] Reference

That if the beginning of a thing can occur, so can the end; for nothing impossible occurs or begins to occur; thus the commensurability of the diagonal of a square with its side neither occurs nor can begin to occur.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rhetoric] Reference

"Reference, (In)commensurability and Meanings: Some (Perhaps) Unanticipated Complexities", in P.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mind Hacks: Minds Designed For Murder?] Reference

Ricardo, in his theory of rent, has given a magnificent example of the commensurability of values.    From Wordnik.com.  [System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery] Reference

I examine the definitional differences between the two instruments top determine their commensurability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Legal Theory Blog] Reference

The reason of these discords I conceive to be that there is no commensurability between a man and any gift.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays — Second Series] Reference

The reason of these discords I conceive to be, that there is no commensurability between a man and any gift.    From Wordnik.com.  [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference

The reason for these discords I conceive to be that there is no commensurability between a man and any gift.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gifts] Reference

We can scarcely doubt that this law of commensurability has largely influenced the present distribution of the asteroids.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition] Reference

The properties of commensurability and incommensurability in lines and surfaces, of rational and irrational lines would cease to have any meaning.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy] Reference

Whether the comparison is across eras, positions, leagues, or teams, sabermetricians labor to establish a single baseline of commensurability for all players.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baseball Prospectus] Reference

Arming yourself with advertisements, printed Internet pages or notes on pricing and policies is designed with a visible commensurability showing a salesperson.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Information about Home Management] Reference

There seems reason to admit that Kirkwood's law of commensurability has had some effect in bringing about the present distribution of the matter composing them.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition] Reference

The third conception of value incommensurability denies both strong and weak commensurability (Richardson 1994, Wiggins 1997, Williams.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incommensurable Values] Reference

Marsilio Ficino remarked: “Some regard beauty as an arrangement of component parts, or to use their own words, commensurability and proportion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

One issue is methodological commensurability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comparative Philosophy: Chinese and Western] Reference

In Monday’s New York Times, Daniel Gilbert, a psychology professor at Harvard, had an op-ed piece about commensurability, “He Who Cast the First Stone Probably Didn’t.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Our Minds] Reference