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Over and over, videos emerged, revealing how often police narratives were incommensurable with what actually happened.

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It would be naive not to acknowledge that there is an incommensurable issue at the base of all of this.

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In fact, no matter how tiny you make the bits, it is impossible to choose a common yardstick that will measure both the side and the diagonal perfectly: the diagonal is incommensurable with the side.

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As a consequence of the vanishing point, artists found themselves living simultaneously in two incommensurable worlds.

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As the late philosopher Lawrence Becker proclaimed, “autonomous human lives have a dignity that is immeasurable, incommensurable, infinite, beyond price.”

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