- an
irrational number, the line
segments are also
described as
being incommensurable,
meaning that they
share no "measure" in common, that is,
there is...
-
which one is more
valid or useful. On the
other hand,
theories are
incommensurable if they are
embedded in
starkly contrasting conceptual frameworks whose...
- Look up commensurability, commensurable, commensurate,
incommensurability, or
incommensurable in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Two
concepts or things...
- simultaneously.) This is
significant in
relation to the
issue of
incommensurability (see below). An
example of a
currently accepted paradigm would be...
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succeeding a
paradigm shift are so
different that
their theories are
incommensurable—the new
paradigm cannot be
proven or
disproven by the
rules of the...
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another or
rationally evaluated against one another—that they are
incommensurable. This gave rise to much talk of
different peoples and
cultures having...
- is the
problem of
incommensurability: the
question of
whether there are
incommensurable values. Two
values are
incommensurable if
there is no fact as...
- figures, as well as a
theory of
ratios that
avoided the
problem of
incommensurable magnitudes,
which enabled subsequent geometers to make significant...
- Goldstein,
Bruce Evan (September 2007). "The ****ility of Reason:
Incommensurable Differences Between Sustainability Narratives in the
Aftermath of the...
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modern integration and a
theory of
ratios that
avoided the
problem of
incommensurable magnitudes. The
former allowed the
calculations of
areas and volumes...