MEANING
The absence of an adequate common basis for measuring or comparing things.
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- incommensurability of values
- theoretical incommensurability
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The argument turned on the incommensurability of the values.
He described theoretical incommensurability without claiming that dialogue was impossible.
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Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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