"Whenever I read this kind of thing, it tells me the writer is not sensitive to the full value of the idea of comparison," she said.
Because the idea of comparison is closely tied to the topic of value incommensurability, this has led to use of the term "incomparable" alongside "incommensurable" in the literature.
Inspired by the idea of comparison shopping portals on Google, Bing and other search engines, Lucky's web director, Mary Gail Pezzimenti, aimed to create a better version of this that caters to fashion products.
Analogies and figurative language, including metaphors and similes, demonstrate an idea through comparison.
We'd love to see your idea for comparisons in the comments below.
BACK in 1999, when people believed the e-tailing shakeout would leave a few Internet merchants standing in every category to compete with the Web sites of traditional companies, the idea of comparison-shopping sites sounded -- like so many things dot-com -- brilliant.
Finally, we consider how the integrated approach can be applied to inform conceptualization of urban design ideas and comparison of alternative schemes.
These include (1) matching or replication designs intended to explore or verify ideas; (2) comparison of differences, including cases selected for their different characteristics; (3) outliers, comparison of extremes to delineate key factors and the shape of a field; and (4) embedded case study designs where multiple units are examined to identify similarities and differences.
The central idea behind our comparison of the methods is the equivalence between the local identifiability of a model and the local positive definiteness of the Hessian matrix (10) at a minimum of the least squares parameter cost function (9) for this model.
Good idea, since the comparison is flawed if taken as Roberts meant it and devolves into a warren of sub-analogies if examined too closely.
