10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INCOMMENSURATENESS»
Discover the use of
incommensurateness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
incommensurateness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
A Companion to Relativism
That is to say, if you have incommensurateness but you don't have conflict, no
hard problem arises. Such superficial “apples and oranges”
incommensurateness means only that you sometimes cannot compare highly
disparate values.
2
Turning Points in Solid-state, Materials and Surface State: ...
Incommensurateness in a solid inclusion compound can have important
consequences for some physical properties of the material, including: (i) the
distribution of guest molecule environments (with implications for issues such as
host–guest ...
Kenneth D. M. Harris, Peter P. Edwards, Royal Society of Chemistry (Great Britain), 2008
3
Practical Rationality and Preference: Essays for David Gauthier
In cases of equal goodness and cases of incommensurateness, rationality
certainly demands that one make a choice. But how should one make it rationally
? This difficult question is raised equally by cases of equal goodness and cases
of ...
Christopher W. Morris, Arthur Ripstein, 2007
4
Nature's Perspectives: Prospects for Ordinal Metaphysics
This is fun (talking insects) and it may also turn out to be useful to other people (
diverging tracks. people employing flying machines and submarines before they'
ve been invented. etc.). I see no incommensurateness with other ordinal
locations ...
Armen Marsoobian, Kathleen Wallace, Robert S. Corrington, 1991
5
Forum on Crime and Society
What really triggers the explanation requirement is incommensurateness or
disproportion that is unreasonable in the circumstances. Even where that
threshold is reached, it is still the case that the slighter such incommensurateness
or ...
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 2002
6
Varieties of Ethical Reflection: New Directions for Ethics ...
Recall the magnanimous Aristotelian who was criticized by a Confucian, despite
the mutual incommensurateness of their ethical languages. We can agree that
ethical systems are plural, in other words, without insisting on judging people
only ...
upon the rack of this tough world / Stretch him out longer', it is clear that the
common idea of the incommensurateness of the suffering body to what it has to
endure is conveyed not so much by citing the vulture, the wheel or the rack as by
...
Kenneth Muir, Stanley Wells, 1982
8
We are All Close: Conversations with Israeli Writers
There is, then, a profound difference inherent in the heterogeneities of each
mode of query in relation to others, expressed as the incommensurateness of any
mode of validation from the standpoint of the others, manifested practically as the
...
Haim Chertok, Stephen David Ross, 1989
9
ADB/OECD Anti-Corruption Initiative for Asia and the Pacific ...
... of the presumption of innocence. It was dictated by necessity and went no
further than necessary. The court's decision was not triggered by trifling
incommensurateness or disproportion, but by incommensurateness or
disproportion that is ...
10
Metaphysical Aporia and Philosophical Heresy
To the contrary, if the infinite intellect cannot think God whole, without aporia and
incommensurateness, then the finite intellect cannot do so either. Yet this is not a
deficiency but a greater wisdom. Finiteness and inexhaustibility are inseparable ...
6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INCOMMENSURATENESS»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
incommensurateness is used in the context of the following news items.
To be and not to have been: kill lists and poetry
The incommensurateness between the title's reference to the supposed “inhumanity” of drone warfare (I think drone warfare is humanity itself) ... «MobyLives, Nov 13»
Belief is an emotion
Little did it matter that the earth was a vale of tears, of horrid sufferings, of incommensurateness, of torturous and humiliating daily pettiness, ... «News24, Jan 13»
53: The Sycamore Kitchen's BLT Sandwich
Quinn and Karen Hatfield's newish casual place on La Brea, The Sycamore Kitchen, is an exercise in incommensurateness, albeit a very L.A. ... «LA Weekly, Sep 12»
Eric X. Li's Globalization 2.0
And only in recognizing and respecting this incommensurateness can the convergence of interests among them be realized, and perhaps a ... «Huffington Post, Nov 11»
Steven Millhauser's Ghost Stories
... devastating slow-fuse emotional tragedy — “The Ghost and Mrs. Muir” rewritten with an exquisite attention to the incommensurateness of loss ... «New York Times, Sep 11»
EDWARD HOPPER: CUBIST IN DISGUISE?
The incommensurateness -- or ironical commensurateness -- of the anonymous and banal modern environment and the human beings who ... «Artnet, Nov 06»
