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Incommensurable
Incommensurable meaning
having a ratio that is not expressible as a fraction of two integers. | having no common integer divisor except 1. | Not able to be measured by the same standards as another term in the context.
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Example sentences (6)
This is odd to say, given how incommensurable and bitter the political divides have become.
Feyerabend suggested that our commonsense understanding of the mind was incommensurable with the (materialistic) scientific view, but that nevertheless we ought to prefer the materialistic one on general methodological grounds.
However, the dimensions form a group under multiplication, so: :One may take ratios of incommensurable quantities (quantities with different dimensions), and multiply or divide them.
If they have different dimensions, they are incommensurable and cannot be directly compared in quantity.
This discovery had heralded the existence of incommensurable quantities beyond the integers and rational fractions, but at the same time it threw into question the idea of measurement and calculations in geometry as a whole.
This is because the nature of subjective, qualitative experience is incoherent in terms of – or semantically incommensurable with the concept of – substances that bear properties.