The concept of medical pluralism implies that in any one community, patients and their carers may resort to different kinds of therapies, even where these have mutually incompatible explanations for the disorder.
However, people in a multicultural society, who respect the beliefs of all, must inevitably observe that all religions are similarly non-scientific in the way they furnish different, often incompatible explanations about the meaning of life, whereas science is systemically consistent.
A third problem about the jury argument is that Plato seems to offer two incompatible explanations of why the jury don't know: first that they have only a limited time to hear the arguments (201b3, 172e1); and second that their judgement is second-hand (201b9).
These two perspectives make available opposing and reciprocally incompatible explanations for the same set of problems: the clients' experienced difficulties with the medications.
Before the larvae fossil discovery the paranotal-hypothesis and the leg-exite-hypothesis have been considered as incompatible alternative explanations, which have both been supported by a set of evidences from the fossil record, comparative morphology, developmental biology and genetics.
Landform substrate relationships, landform associations, and sedimentary sequences are incompatible with prevailing explanations of landsystem development centred mainly on deforming beds.
But the Macdonalds don't see this as incompatible with reason explanations being causal.
"There will be incompatible interpretations or explanations [of the achievement of literary aesthetic value in a work] that appeal to different tastes or preferences for different aesthetic values" (p. 38).
These curvilinear patterns we observed are inconsistent with monotonic trends found in previous research making our findings incompatible with previous explanations of the relationship between income inequality and health related harms.
The compliance assumption and its related presuppositions are incompatible with alternative explanations for the clients' medication-related problems, such as the idea that psychotropic drugs can be harmful because of their side effects.
