One of the knottiest dimensions of Berlin's pluralism is the idea of incommensurability, which has been open to diverging interpretations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Isaiah Berlin] Reference

A realist response to this kind of incommensurability may appeal to externalist or naturalized epistemology.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thomas Kuhn] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Value Theory] Reference

incommensurability between values must be distinguished from the kind of incommensurability associated with Paul Feyerabend (1978.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incommensurable Values] Reference

The moral, in general terms, is that in cases of incommensurability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dynamic Choice] Reference

A weaker form of value incommensurability involves what Griffin calls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incommensurable Values] Reference

Value incommensurability also has been considered with respect to the law.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incommensurable Values] Reference

However, none of these writers admit that incommensurability is widespread.    From Wordnik.com.  [Value Pluralism] Reference

Elizabeth Anderson advances a second argument for constitutive incommensurability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incommensurable Values] Reference

Consider Abraham's case, as described by John Broome in his work on incommensurability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dynamic Choice] Reference

David Wiggins, for example, puts this forward as one conception of value incommensurability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incommensurable Values] Reference

The dilemma encountering Sophie, it may be said, does not point to the incommensurability of values.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incommensurable Values] Reference

Second, in the case of moral considerations, there may not be any denial of value incommensurability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incommensurable Values] Reference

Some pluralists accept that there are sometimes cases where incommensurability precludes rational choice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Value Pluralism] Reference

The first, metaphysical sort of value incommensurability is defined directly in terms of what is the case.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moral Reasoning] Reference

If so, then Kuhn can no longer use the appearance of incommensurability to demarcate revolutionary changes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific Revolutions] Reference

The discussion of incommensurability suffers from the notorious difficulties of explicating such notions as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Structuralism in Physics] Reference

The previous argument requires possibly unrealistically strong senses of incommensurability and theory-ladenness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Historicist Theories of Rationality] Reference

There are many other kinds of theses that go under the title of the incomparability or incommensurability of values.    From Wordnik.com.  [Value Theory] Reference

Because the idea of comparison is closely tied to the topic of value incommensurability, this has led to use of the term.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incommensurable Values] Reference

In the writings of Ludwig there is no direct reference to the incommensurability thesis and the corresponding discussion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Structuralism in Physics] Reference

From this point of view, different wholes, whether theories or Kuhnian paradigms, manifest conceptual incommensurability.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unity of Science] Reference

This interpretation makes much of Kuhn's use of the theory-ladenness of observation and various sorts of incommensurability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Historicist Theories of Rationality] Reference

The relation between incomparability of bearers of value and incommensurability of values will be addressed in subsection 3.1.    From Wordnik.com.  [Incommensurable Values] Reference

Kuhn from then on dropped the other dimensions of incommensurability as exaggerated extensions of linguistic incommensurability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific Revolutions] Reference

Boyle's stock example in this area, though not his only example, is the incommensurability of the sides and diagonal of a square.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sticky Wants to Grab] Reference

One can make a three-way distinction, between weak incommensurability, moderate incommensurability and radical incommensurability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Isaiah Berlin] Reference

If the choice of a conceptual space is merely a matter of taste then we may be forced to embrace a radical kind of incommensurability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Truthlikeness] Reference

But if incommensurability implies that these conflicts cannot be rationally resolved, then it might suggest a concession to relativism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moral Relativism] Reference

In his analysis of incommensurability, Fred D™Agostino discusses the role of social institutions in resolving value conflicts (2003).    From Wordnik.com.  [Incommensurable Values] Reference

Now, the metaphysical incommensurability of values, or its absence, is only loosely linked to how it would be reasonable to deliberate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moral Reasoning] Reference

These are those nonexistents whose opposites always are, as the incommensurability of the diagonal always is-and this will not be in time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Physics] Reference

Raz approaches the issue of incommensurability by talking about the nature of agency and rationality instead of about the nature of value.    From Wordnik.com.  [Value Pluralism] Reference

Finally, pluralists must explain how comparisons between values are made, or defend the consequence that incommensurability is widespread.    From Wordnik.com.  [Value Pluralism] Reference

Pluralists differ on whether pluralism entails incommensurabilities, and on what incommensurability entails for the possibility of choice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Value Pluralism] Reference

Another response is that incommensurability does not preclude the possibility of rationally resolving differences between moral frameworks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moral Relativism] Reference

Well: about eternal things no one deliberates; as, for instance, the universe, or the incommensurability of the diameter and side of a square.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ethics] Reference

One infers syllogistically that odd numbers come out equal to evens, and one proves hypothetically the incommensurability of the diagonal, since.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prior Analytics] Reference