Or had the symbols become so bipolar they could sustain incompatible meanings?
This leads to confusion, and consequently, people from various research communities use the term with different – sometimes incompatible – meanings.
Native tools are also based on completely incompatible programming languages, meaning an app needs to be developed twice or more to run on iOS, Android and other platforms.
The various types of memory cards are incompatible with one another, meaning you cannot put a Memory Stick in a Secure Digital card slot.
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.
It has been argued that the term phenomenology has become corrupted in clinical psychiatry: current usage, as a set of supposedly objective descriptions of a psychiatric patient (a synonym for signs and symptoms), is incompatible with the original meaning which was concerned with comprehending a patient's subjective experience.
Hegel said that no man is a hero to his valet – meaning intimacy is incompatible with the heroic.
There is a widespread tendency to see naturalism and normativism as incompatible in the theory of meaning determination (see also section 4 below), but from what we just said, their relation would seem to be more complicated.
Demand for lenses from obsolete camera systems, meaning those completely incompatible with today's digital SLRs, is much lower, because nobody is buying them for use with digital.
