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Look up commensurability, commensurable, commensurate, incommensurability, or incommensurable in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Two concepts or things

this reason the idea of incommensurability will be discussed for each coauthor separately. Feyerabend locates incommensurability within a principle from

by supplying the necessary logical foundation for incommensurable ratios". This incommensurability is dealt with in Euclid's Elements, Book X, Proposition

paradigm. The two versions of reality are thus incommensurable. Kuhn's version of incommensurability has an important psychological dimension. This is

leading to divergent scientific theories and understandings. The incommensurability of these paradigms implies that what one group considers scientific

and purposes, very Euclidean in nature and speaks to the concept of incommensurability. The usage primarily comes from translations of Euclid's Elements

of old theories, but were instead completely new world views. Such incommensurability exists not just before and after a paradigm shift, but in the periods

another or rationally evaluated against one another—that they are incommensurable. This gave rise to much talk of different peoples and cultures having

contrast, incommensurability is a situation where two scientific programs are fundamentally at odds. Two important authors who applied incommensurability to

Goldstein, Bruce Evan (September 2007). "The Futility of Reason: Incommensurable Differences Between Sustainability Narratives in the Aftermath of the