| 单词 | incommensurable |
| 例句 | As a consequence of the vanishing point, artists found themselves living simultaneously in two incommensurable worlds. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z In fact, no matter how tiny you make the bits, it is impossible to choose a common yardstick that will measure both the side and the diagonal perfectly: the diagonal is incommensurable with the side. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z It was “the incommensurable zone in which the old state turns into the new.” ‘Zero,’ a Look at a Movement, at the Guggenheim 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z But Morris pointed out that if paradigms were incommensurable, then the past was incommensurable, and any history of science was impossible. The Fort Bragg murders: is Jeffrey MacDonald innocent? 2013-04-13T23:05:28Z Science and religion are not incommensurable – and it’s time we stop treating them like they are. Richard Dawkins is so wrong it hurts: What the science-vs.-religion debate ignores 2014-04-05T13:45:00Z He gossips, jokes and cites Max Weber and Jean-Paul Sartre and uses words like “incommensurable”. Louis Theroux: ‘For all his awfulness, I admire Trump’s shamelessness’ 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z Kuhn maintained that different paradigms, or scientific eras, were "incommensurable", meaning that they couldn't be understood in terms of each other. The Fort Bragg murders: is Jeffrey MacDonald innocent? 2013-04-13T23:05:28Z Although they might resemble our skeletons in shape and texture, they are completely incommensurable in scale. Allora & Calzadilla celebrate beauty, oddity of animal world 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z Proceeding by touches, symbols, and synecdoches, by suggestions and implications, Gray’s modesty conveys, above all, an absence—the incommensurable abyss between the experience and the image, the realm of the unfilmable, or, rather, the no-longer-filmable. “The Lost City of Z” Resuscitates Cinema’s Classic Adventure Tale 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z It’s when revolutions intervene that short gaps of time seem nearly incommensurable; periods of gradual change make long durations seem to collapse in the wave of a hand. Movies Click: A Rarely Screened Rock-and-Roll Classic 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z Over and over, videos emerged, revealing how often police narratives were incommensurable with what actually happened. When Bystanders Step Between the Police and Black Men 2023-03-08T05:00:00Z The fundamental problem of the calendar is to reconcile the incommensurable lengths of the day, month, and year. Astronomy 2016-10-13T00:00:00Z It would be naive not to acknowledge that there is an incommensurable issue at the base of all of this. Opinion | Abortion feels hyper-polarized. But what if it’s not? 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z Rawaa Nancy Albilal, president and chief executive of the Support Center, said that travel loans put refugee families under incommensurable stress. Welcome, Refugees. Now Pay Back Your Travel Loans. 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z Interests in military hegemony, reproductive rights, and religious freedom throw yet more, often incommensurable, variables into the mix. How the American government slowly became a business | Jon Michaels 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z Kuhn argued that different scientific worldviews, or paradigms, such as physics before and after quantum mechanics, are “incommensurable,” or incomparable, because they invest terms such as matter and energy with different meanings. Did Thomas Kuhn Help Elect Donald Trump? 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z Their chatter suggested they “are intellectually and ideologically incommensurable even to one another”. Dear Oregon militia men: Here’s why no one feels sorry for you and rejects your mission built on conservative Christian rage 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z The ongoing calls for transparency put pressure on ZPM to carry on all of its business in public, but transparency and efficacy can be incommensurable ideals. ZPM Espresso and the Rage of the Jilted Crowdfunder 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Different paradigms have no common standard for comparison; they are “incommensurable,” to use Kuhn’s term. What Thomas Kuhn Really Thought about Scientific "Truth" 2012-05-23T19:15:00.423Z Man is incommensurable with the rest of the universe. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis 2012-04-08T02:00:21.793Z And now, with a few feet of carpet and an open door between them, he was far away—incommensurably far away! The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z Irrational this residue is, in the sense that it is inexplicable, and incommensurable with the well-known quantities of conscious and voluntarily organised life. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z And thus there may really be something at times incommensurable between the inspirations of genius and the results of conscious logical thought. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z What then shall we conclude from these observations except that in Nature there is a hidden force, an incommensurable "potential energy," an ever open, never exhausted fount of apparitions at once magnificent and unexpected? Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History 2012-01-01T03:00:07.953Z But milk is in units of liquid measure; gold in incommensurable units of Troy weight. Social Value A Study in Economic Theory Critical and Constructive 2011-11-19T03:00:28.253Z But for the literary life of both poets the gain was incommensurable. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z He dogmatically proclaims that war between peoples—not the wars formerly fought by mercenary armies,—is a crime,—abominable,—and a folly,—incommensurable. England, Canada and the Great War 2011-10-20T02:00:21.577Z In other words, the magnitude measured may be incommensurable with the unit of measure, a seeming paradox. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z But the answer to this question is given by a number, at least in some cases, and in all cases if we admit incommensurable numbers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z Yet here we find him admitting that virgin soil, which, ex hypothesi, does not possess that quality, and ought therefore to be incommensurable with anything that possesses it, is yet measured with money every day. Contemporary Socialism 2011-09-10T02:00:28.673Z But a complete fusion, as in the case of branches of the same group, probably never results from the union of two widely dissimilar races, or, at least, would require an incommensurable lapse of time. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z In that theory an irrational number was the ratio of two incommensurable geometric magnitudes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z "Commensurable," "incommensurable," "constant," and "variable" are then defined, and these definitions are followed by a brief discussion of limit. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z Even the notion of incommensurable quantities is avoided in Book V. But he proves that the more elementary rules of algebra hold for ratios. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z In truth, the two things are, perhaps, strictly incommensurable. Social Rights And Duties Addresses to Ethical Societies Vol II 2011-08-05T02:00:45.557Z It is now well established that, like the diagonal and side of a square, the diameter and circumference of any circle are incommensurable quantities. The Seven Follies of Science [2nd ed.] A popular account of the most famous scientific impossibilities and the attempts which have been made to solve them. 2011-06-30T02:00:34.290Z The influence of an incommensurably greater poet, of Wordsworth, is also to be traced in it. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z This is usually proved first for the commensurable case and then for the incommensurable one. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z Considered from this point of view, we may say the fifth book of the Elements shows that some of the simpler algebraical operations hold for incommensurable numbers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z Alexander was to all the theorists an incommensurable quantity. Problems in Greek history 2011-06-09T02:00:18.427Z It is an incommensurable number which to five decimal places is equal to 2.71828. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 3: Estremoz to Felspar 2011-04-14T02:00:59.373Z But it is doubtful whether any acting could carry off a plot so ultra-romantically extravagant and in places so obscure, or characters so incommensurably more eloquent than they are alive. Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame 2011-06-10T02:00:19.290Z We may start with a square, for example, but this is not so good as the hexagon because its side is incommensurable with the radius, and its perimeter is not as near the circumference. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z His definitions hold for commensurable as well as for incommensurable quantities. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z Only childhood symbolizes God as "the sum of all being," realizing itself in joy incommensurable. Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School 2011-03-27T02:00:15.947Z This was, doubtless, first discovered with reference to the diagonal of a square which is incommensurable with the side, being in the ratio to it of √2 to 1. Archimedes Men of Science 2011-03-13T03:00:23.660Z On the scientific side the industry is incommensurably staffed, and most of the workers’ time is occupied with routine work connected with estate practice. The Preparation of Plantation Rubber 2011-03-09T03:00:40.870Z They were also the first to study seriously the incommensurable number, and with this study the treatment of proportion from the standpoint of rational numbers lost its scientific position with respect to geometry. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z Now he was enormously exercised in the search for a reconciliation between these, he felt, incommensurable factors. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z The power of the unknown is incommensurable; and so it is, there is that in a vague threat that terrifies the stoutest heart. Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume II. 2011-02-18T03:00:19.343Z Lastly, the Pythagoreans discovered the existence of incommensurable lines, or of irrationals. Archimedes Men of Science 2011-03-13T03:00:23.660Z Hats are, in their physical aspects, incommensurable with wheat. The Value of Money 2011-01-04T03:01:12.363Z The second definition is intended to exclude zero and infinite magnitudes, and to show that incommensurable magnitudes are included. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z She was outside—an adventure—a perplexing incommensurable with all these things. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z Goethe has proclaimed the incommensurable as the material of all poetry, but among the French the tendency to crystallize it in the solution of their positivist habit of thought is ever imperceptibly betrayed. Paul Verlaine 2010-12-28T03:00:19.670Z In reality, at the centre of every natural being there is something individual and incommensurable, a seed with its native impulses and aspirations, shaping themselves as best they can in their given environment. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z The martyrs shrank from suffering like other men, but such natural shrinking was incommensurable with apostasy. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent In the modern treatment by limits the proof is divided into two parts: first, for commensurable bases; and second, for incommensurable ones. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z The incommensurable of Pythagoras and the paradoxes of Zeno present the "no thoroughfares" of ancient mathematical thought. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude For as the power of the unknown number is incommensurable, so the height to which a man's success may carry him can never be estimated. Tony Butler After a mile or so they dipped down between high hedges and overarching trees that gave more response to their lights than the open country, whose incommensurable blackness swallowed up their jigging, feeble illumination. Carnival And so again, as regards the affections and passions of our nature, they are sui generis respectively, and incommensurable, and must be severally experienced in order to be apprehended really. An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent Euclid's treatment of proportion was so rigorous that no special treatment of the incommensurable was necessary. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z This ratio, invariably denoted by π, is constant for all circles, but it does not admit of exact arithmetical expression, being of the nature of an incommensurable number. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" And isn't it simply the incommensurable emotion evoked by the genius of the painter or sculptor? Ivory Apes and Peacocks Any quantity, commensurable or incommensurable, can be expressed uniquely as a simple continued fraction, terminating in the case of a commensurable quantity, non-terminating in the case of an incommensurable quantity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" There can be no disproportion between consciousness and the unconscious, because they are absolutely incommensurable; and number, in relation to consciousness, is an illusion. God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' It seems to reduce the propositions to be proved in plane geometry to about one hundred fifteen, and it recommends the omission of the incommensurable case. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z Red and blue are incommensurable; and in like manner, a Magian never can become a Greek, nor a Greek a Cœlicolist. Callista : a Tale of the Third Century It is as direct as a challenge, as personal as a handshake, and yet withal how mystical, how elusive, how incommensurable! Whitman A Study These results were given by Lambert, and used by him to prove that π and π� incommensurable, and also any commensurable power of e. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2 "Constantine Pavlovich" to "Convention" Wilkes's Spirit of the Times incommensurably towers above the New York Press by its dauntless patriotism; by its clear, broad, and deep comprehension of the condition of the country. Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 This includes the incommensurable case, but this case may be omitted. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z It is easily shown that no figure whatsoever, except a circle, has two axes of symmetry which make an angle incommensurable with the whole revolution. Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc But any such double standard, in which the two measures are absolutely incommensurable, leads straight to chaos. The English Utilitarians, Volume I. Nevertheless Albion's England is, not merely in bulk but in merit, far ahead of the average work of our first period, and quite incommensurable with such verse as that of Grove. A History of Elizabethan Literature On the theory enunciated by Watts-Dunton, everything except the perfect average is absolutely funny, and the perfect average, of course, is generally an incommensurable quantity. G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study Somewhat related to the preceding paragraph is the fact that the edges of the five regular solids are incommensurable with the radius of the circumscribed sphere. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z Magnitudes commensurable, are those which one and the same measure doth measure: Contrariwise, Magnitudes incommensurable are those, which the same measure cannot measure. The Way To Geometry The causes which operate in these incommensurable cycles are connected with one another only if we take the whole universe into account. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy Then the fraction i/k+ l/m+ ... is incommensurable, as proved: let it be κ. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II But it proceeds rather like a shell, which suddenly bursts into fragments, which fragments, being themselves shells, burst in their turn into fragments destined to burst again, and so on for a time incommensurably long. Creative Evolution In general, it is doubtful if the majority of an American class in geometry get much out of the incommensurable case. The Teaching of Geometry 2011-10-12T02:00:52.133Z They may be so unlike and incommensurable, and so inert towards one another, as never to jostle or interfere. Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays And qualitatively as well as quantitatively the effect may be absolutely incommensurable with the cause. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy The continued fraction is therefore incommensurable, and cannot be unity. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II The free act is incommensurable with the idea, and its "rationality" must be defined by this very incommensurability, which admits the discovery of as much intelligibility within it as we will. Creative Evolution Philosophy cannot emanate from life, and quicken life, without elevating and ennobling it, and will therefore always be incommensurable with life narrowly conceived. The Approach to Philosophy His good qualities belong chiefly to the man, his bad to the Englishman and the peer, his talent is incommensurable. The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 A liberal philosophy becomes the habit of minds thus exercised; a breadth and spaciousness of thought, in which lines, seemingly parallel, may converge at leisure, and principles, recognized as incommensurable, may be safely antagonistic. The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin But ρ is the fraction a/b+ c/d+ ... itself; which is therefore incommensurable. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II Yet the state of consciousness overflows the intellect; it is indeed incommensurable with the intellect, being itself indivisible and new. Creative Evolution 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 The truth is, there is no resemblance, no analogy, between Electricity and Life; the two orders of phenomena are completely distinct; they are incommensurable. Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life. Lastly, the Pythagoreans discovered the existence of the incommensurable or irrational in the particular case of the diagonal of a square in relation to its side. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield I think it right to give the proof that the ratio of the circumference to the diameter is incommensurable. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II The company is positively staking against the incommensurable. Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General Since the philosopher and the common man do not see alike, the terms of their experience are incommensurable. The Approach to Philosophy To those who accept the belief in God, the soul and moral responsibility; and recognize the full results of that acceptance—to such, physical suffering and moral evil are simply incommensurable. On the Genesis of Species Cost here becomes something entirely irrelevant, the returns are sure to be so incommensurable. Memories and Studies It easily follows that the continued fraction is incommensurable if a/b, c/d, etc., being at first greater than unity, become and continue less than unity after some one point. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II But the difference between life and death is here so small that it is incommensurable, the point of the mathematicians only. The Flutter of the Goldleaf; and Other Plays There are too many secular, as well as periodic influences combining, to produce the effect; and the times are too incommensurable. Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence In the organic world we strike a principle that is incalculable in its operation and incommensurable in its results. The Breath of Life The new gods thus far were not incommensurable with the old ones. The Religion of Numa And Other Essays on the Religion of Ancient Rome Our humanity cannot annul the incommensurable sorts of good that may be pursued in the world, though it cannot itself pursue them. Winds Of Doctrine Studies in Contemporary Opinion Such," says M. Miel, "was Cherubim; a colossal and incommensurable genius, an existence full of days, of masterpieces, and of glory. Great Italian and French Composers The essential quality of great artists is incommensurable with biography; they seem to be unconsciously engaged in a perpetual evasion of the event. Aspects of Literature And philology, with its great and fruitful law of analogical formations, opens wide the door to chance, to the irrational, to the absolutely incommensurable. Tragic Sense Of Life How could we feel that God and man are incommensurable, if we had not the witness of a higher self immeasurably above our lower selves? Christian Mysticism And he comes, not merely in time, pretty close to Defoe, incommensurable as is the genius of the two. The English Novel We seek to satisfy our intelligence by means of a coherent picture of love, but the gulf between that picture and the emotional reality must always be incommensurable and impassable. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society All simple sensations, derived from different senses, are incommensurable with one another, and only gradations of their own intensity are comparable. Critiques and Addresses For to define a thing is to idealize it, a process which necessitates the abstraction from it of its incommensurable or irrational element, its vital essence. Tragic Sense Of Life "Yet there are men that have the presumption to expect to get the better of the Parisian woman!—of the woman who possesses thirty-seven thousand ways of saying 'No,' and incommensurable variations in saying 'Yes.'" Pink and White Tyranny A Society Novel The present writer is not very fond of these measurings together of things incommensurable—these attempts to rank the "light white sea-mew" as superior or inferior to the "sleek black pantheress." The English Novel The similarity between many phases of their lives is remarkable, and their works are not incommensurable. The Book of American Negro Poetry That is the sort of reality given us, and that is the sort with which logic is so incommensurable. A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy He finds its source in their aspirations after nobler expression of that feeling for the incommensurable things, which is in truth under so many varieties of inwoven pattern the common universal web of religious faith. On Compromise She had all the thirty-seven thousand ways of saying "No," and the incommensurable variations in saying "Yes," as completely as the best French teaching could have given it. Pink and White Tyranny A Society Novel In fact, though a sort of pseudo-Plutarchian parallel between them is nearly as inevitable as it is common, it is a parallel almost entirely composed of differences, carried out in matter almost incommensurable. The English Novel Incalculable, incomprehensible, incommensurable: yes, all souls, the least and greatest, attack them as we will, are that. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti Therefore, it may be well before quoting these writings to note one or two points marking an almost incommensurable difference between their mode and ours of regarding the world. Pantheism, Its Story and Significance Religions Ancient and Modern And whether we refer the happenings of life to an all-wise Providence, or to a scientific order which is so because it is so, they remain alike incommensurable with our ethical feeling. The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller By means which will some day be known, he utilized electricity, that incommensurable force, for all the necessities of his apparatus as a motor, for lighting and for heat. The Mysterious Island The career of the Saxon in fortune was a thing incommensurable by Irish ideas; but Joe was like himself, or in reality less than himself, in worldly advantages. Lord Kilgobbin But the measures of reform, when produced, are ludicrously incommensurable with the evils to be remedied. Milton In the times from which the first known Pantheistic teaching dates, ideas of nature's order were incongruous and indeed incommensurable with ours. Pantheism, Its Story and Significance Religions Ancient and Modern The sky became of a thick darkness,... interrupted only by flashes of light which the lava reverberated, by the bloody gliding of the thunderbolts, by the incandescence of enormous projectiles, thrown to an incommensurable highness.... Roman Holidays, and Others Free Fools, unlanded Fools, and Fools incommensurable, and Pedants displayed and rampant of the Tierce Major. The Path to Rome The two states are incommensurable on any plan of direct comparison. The Opium Habit His good qualities belong chiefly to the man, his bad to the Englishman and the peer, his talent is incommensurable. Pages from a Journal with Other Papers Adj. numeral, numerical; arithmetical, analytic, algebraic, statistical, numerable, computable, calculable; commensurable, commensurate; incommensurable, incommensurate, innumerable, unfathomable, infinite. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases Without undertaking to measure and compare what is incommensurable, I hold that Goethe's genius is essentially lyrical. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13 Great Writers; Dr Lord's Uncompleted Plan, Supplemented with Essays by Emerson, Macaulay, Hedge, and Mercer Adam Put him high or low, in the line of kings or out of it, he is hopelessly incongruous, incommensurable, and out of place. Lectures and Essays But that which is properly 'himself,' that which constitutes his essence, cannot be perceived from without, being internal by definition, nor be expressed by symbols, being incommensurable with everything else. Bergson and His Philosophy The two things are not merely different, they are incommensurable. Considerations on Representative Government Are the difficulties that attend the doctrine of incommensurable quantities, of the angle of contact, of the asymptotes to curves, or the like, sufficient to make you hold out against mathematical demonstration? Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous There was something incalculable, incommensurable, and daemonic in Shelley's genius; and what he might have achieved, had his life been spared and had his health progressively improved, it is of course impossible to say. Percy Bysshe Shelley In his hand were strings, which, if he liked to pull them, would topple down a goodly edifice, with uproar and dust and amazement indescribable: so slight an effort, so incommensurable an outcome! Denzil Quarrier The committal of homicide or suicide during sleep by an aberration of the light of reason, the incommensurable categorical intelligence situated in the cerebral convolutions. Ulysses In two words, the world of beauty and the world of natural processes are incommensurable, and scientific criticism of literary art is a logical impossibility. The Psychology of Beauty For he has not told everything; this incommensurable region, which had hitherto remained unworked, is far from being exhausted. Fabre, Poet of Science During his short period of residence, moreover, he had not shown himself so tractable as to secure the good wishes of superiors, who prefer conformity to incommensurable genius. Percy Bysshe Shelley Unfortunately, they HAD dealings with each other: in the performance of official functions, their incommensurable and repellent minds were necessarily brought to bear upon the same matters of public concern. The Eve of the Revolution; a chronicle of the breach with England For us with the standard of good and evil given us by Christ, no human actions are incommensurable. War and Peace Was it not he who led her into those loftier regions, where suffering ceased beneath the weight of incommensurable infinity? and now a certain air of triumph about Beatrix disturbed her. Beatrix ATHENIAN: But if some things are commensurable and others wholly incommensurable, and you think that all things are commensurable, what is your position in regard to them? Laws And thought could not give an answer to my question—it is incommensurable with my question. Anna Karenina Do not let us be deceived by this appearance: it signifies only that language is incommensurable with thought, that speech admits of endless multiplication in approximations incapable of exhausting their object. A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson ATHENIAN: The natures of commensurable and incommensurable quantities in their relation to one another. Laws |
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