Rather than restricting the possibilities to a panoptic database or a subordination of all to phylogeny, understanding a complex adaptive system like human migration can be conceived as a system in which incommensurable, scale-dependent, and dynamic components produce emergent results through interacting feedback processes [22].
Although they might resemble our skeletons in shape and texture, they are completely incommensurable in scale.
Scheffler sees that concern as an upscaling of in-group solidarity to the level of the species, as if the human life form were just an extension of human forms of life and as if there were no "disjunctures and incommensurable differences among scales" (Woods 135).
For efficiently treating quasi-periodic and multiscale problems numerically, it is here proposed to change the number of space dimensions which is then multiplied by the number of different (incommensurable or widely separated) scales occurring in the problem.
Horrors on that scale are not so much incommensurable with each other (though they are) but more importantly each one seems incommensurable with our ordinary lives: impossible to grasp.
Rating scales are ordinal categorical, not quantitative, and they may well be incommensurable across students.
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.
The moral, in general terms, is that in cases of incommensurability (or cases in which it is tempting to treat two alternatives as incommensurable), decisions that seem individually defensible can, when combined, result in a series of decisions that fit together very poorly relative to the agent's large-scale, ongoing concerns.
Conner makes us dwell on the incommensurable.
Accordingly, the Greeks called such pairs of lengths "incommensurable".
