incommensurable
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As the language instinct results in “the great variety of human languages,” so the mattering instinct results, Ms. Goldstein writes, in “the great variety of incommensurable forms of human life.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026
It would be naive not to acknowledge that there is an incommensurable issue at the base of all of this.
From Washington Post • May 13, 2022
The fundamental problem of the calendar is to reconcile the incommensurable lengths of the day, month, and year.
From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016
The ongoing calls for transparency put pressure on ZPM to carry on all of its business in public, but transparency and efficacy can be incommensurable ideals.
From New York Times • Apr. 30, 2015
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.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
