Sentence examples for as a common measure from inspiring English sources
If overall synthesis gas conversion is used as a common measure of performance, then cocurrent flow is preferred over countercurrent flow.
Penetration resistance (PR) has been regarded as a common measure for characterizing the density profile of soil and biological materials in agricultural engineering.
It may be objected that just because some careers are incomparable with respect to "goodness as a career" in Raz's example, we should not rule out "goodness as a career" as a common measure.
According to this view, it is a mistake to assume that for a list of respects (e.g., "goodness of career") to serve as a common measure, it must be "complete"—meaning that for any two alternatives that display those respects, it is true that some positive value judgment holds true in virtue of that list of respects.
In turn, if we acknowledge the possibility that items thought incomparable are, in fact, comparable by way of "roughly equal" or "on a par," then it would appear that "goodness of career" serves as a common measure against which to compare the musical and legal careers in Raz's example.
The systems of the U.S. Embassy in New Delhi measured the ambient levels of PM 2.5 — tiny particulates in the air that serve as a common measure of air pollution — at above 1,100 at 2 a.m.
In response, it is not clear what is gained for the analysis of value incommensurability by calling "goodness as a career" a common measure.
First, calling "goodness as a career" a common measure for comparing the legal and musical careers would change neither the judgment that one career is not better than the other nor the judgment that they are not equally good.
What Hobbes seems to find the central problem in the state of nature is not so much the preponderance of "unsociable" passions as the lack of a "common measure".
If so, it may be said that what distinguishes a list of respects, such as "goodness of career," from a common measure is that it is only in the case of a common measure that the gain in one value cancels the loss in another.
