commensurable

How To Use commensurable In A Sentence

• There is force in the argument that to permit reference in libel cases to conventional levels of award in personal injury cases is simply to admit yet another incommensurable into the field of consideration.
• For good reasons, developing nations reject cap-and-trade solutions, in part because it is impossible to define comparable cap-and-trade policies for radically differing economies in a fair manner; emission taxes would be much more commensurable between different economies. The Advantages of an Emissions Tax
• The salary given is commensurable to educational qualifications and working experience of the candidate.
• Each countenance must be seen in its incommensurable particularity - in other words, as a unique beauty which cannot be replaced, substituted, or reduced to another.
• Rather, it is because some, though not all, values are incommensurable.
• The fundamental argument for its existence was the immediate appeal to self-consciousness; and it was further defined as indestructible on the ground of its being utterly discontinuous and incommensurable with its material environment. The Approach to Philosophy
• Pappus tells us, therefore, that Theaetetus was inspired by the work of Theodorus to work on incommensurables and that he made major contributions to the theory.
• Value as a structure of signification thus radically changes the way we compare things by making commodities commensurable, despite their qualitative differences.
• It is through exchange that non-identical individuals and performances become commensurable and identical.
• ‘Is’ and ‘ought’ seem to come from different, incommensurable worlds.