Value incommensurability is worrying: if values are incommensurable, then either we are forced into an ad hoc ranking, or we cannot rank the values at all.
If (a) they are incommensurable the same reasoning holds.
At the basis of the challenge is Kuhn's claim that paradigms are incommensurable with each other.
Football is a field with its own complex insolvency rules which are incommensurable with the Insolvency Act.
The tropical year and the synodic month are incommensurable, 12 synodic months amounting to 354.36706 days, almost 11 days shorter than the tropical year.
He argued that competing paradigms are "incommensurable": that is to say, there exists no objective way of assessing their relative merits.
In any case, by 400 bc it was known that lines corresponding to √3, √5, and other square roots are incommensurable with a fixed unit length.
Well, yes, but there's more to taste than knowing what you like, and if lived experiences are incommensurable with one another, works of art nonetheless demand to be ranked, judged and argued about -- that's part of the fun.
Looking at the Republican Party today, as opposed to when you wrote the article, to what extent do you think there is a transformation so great that the two are incommensurable?
Different periods' challenges mean different ministries are incommensurable, and Hurd makes too swift an analogy between Peel's battles and the Tory traumas of the 90s when he was foreign secretary.
For Carnap, different linguistic frameworks are incommensurable.
