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Commensurable
Commensurable meaning
Able to be measured using a common standard. | Related in size or scale; commensurate or proportionate. | (of two or more numbers) Divisible by the same number ᵂᴾ
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Incommensurability did not concern Feyerabend greatly, because he believed that even when theories are commensurable (i.e. can be compared), the outcome of the comparison should not necessarily rule out either theory.
Others have said that pleasure is not commensurable across people with varying identities and thus the idea of aggregating utility is impossible.
Physical quantities that are commensurable have the same dimension and can be directly compared to each other, even if they are originally expressed in differing units of measure.
Thus, dimensional analysis may be used as a sanity check of physical equations: the two sides of any equation must be commensurable or have the same dimensions.
Using Thomae's function f, : which generalizes to a and b rational numbers or commensurable real numbers.