Sentence examples for incommensurable gap from inspiring English sources

Does "2001" suggest that there's an incommensurable gap between those who experience outer space and those who remain on the ground or simply between those with the intelligence and moxie to fulfill great missions and the run of humanity's mill?

Does "2001" suggest that there's an incommensurable gap between those who experience outer space and those who remain on the ground — or simply between those with the intelligence and moxie to fulfill great missions and the run of humanity's mill?

An extraordinary current of pain runs through Joe Swanberg's new romantic comedy, "Drinking Buddies," a deep melancholy that turns out to be the driving force of the action, which is the sustenance of the life of a couple — and the incommensurable gap between a member of a couple and a single person.

Bokdam, M., Amlaki, T., Brocks, G. & Kelly, P. J. Band gaps in incommensurable graphene on hexagonal boron nitride.

It's when revolutions intervene that short gaps of time seem nearly incommensurable; periods of gradual change make long durations seem to collapse in the wave of a hand.

In contrast to their philosophical claims of meaning gaps and partial lack of rationality in the choice between incommensurable theories, Bohr believed not just retrospectively that quantum mechanics was a natural generalization of classical physics, but he and Heisenberg followed in practice the requirements of the correspondence rule.

Wiggins, for example, reserves the second conception of value incommensurability for what he calls "common or garden variety incommensurable" choices and the third conception for what he calls "circumstantially cum tragically incommensurable" choices (1997, 64).

Even if a conception of justified choice can accommodate value incommensurability, questions remain about how to justify choice on the basis of incommensurable values and how to reason about incommensurable values.

Conner makes us dwell on the incommensurable.

Accordingly, the Greeks called such pairs of lengths "incommensurable".

Most of them have incommensurable or mixed-type objectives.