Commensurable

Now that which is of divine birth has a period which is contained in a perfect number, but the period of human birth is comprehended in a number in which first increments by involution and evolution (or squared and cubed) obtaining three intervals and four terms of like and unlike, waxing and waning numbers, make all the terms commensurable and agreeable to one another. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Thinking of the U.S. government's role at home in terms commensurable with notions of "the new way of war" and "market states" is no less ludicrous for being logical. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Productivity gains were in fact what lead to ever increasing amounts of disposable income for more than 100 years, but, by comparing housing costs, which is commensurable in regards to productivity because each of these sectors has had little influence from recent technological innovations, it becomes easier to understand how much influence ag subsidies have had. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It is only as expressions of such a unit that they are of the same denomination, and therefore commensurable. ❋ Skzbrust (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The more important thing I think gets lost here is that we sometimes care about dimensions of our experience beyond the pure quantity of satisfaction we get from it, to the extent that varied experiences are commensurable enough to talk coherently about “satisfaction” in some consistent way across the cases. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I think the other key thing to norms is that they generally have an associated value that is not utility-based/commensurable. norms are tied to these non-commensurate values, whereas conventions may be tied to some utility calculation, but as you note, hold no system of sanction that would indicate a value. ❋ Daniel Little (2009)

Neufeld's words and images are commensurable and rhythmic, and the vernacular is sharp. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Prose of the World established that there was a single source behind all acts of expression, which made them commensurable to language, only to acknowledge the specificity of language in a manner similar to Sartre's. ❋ Deranty, Jean-Philippe (2009)

Even though democracy is a universal value, at the same time, it should be adjusted to the local habits and traditions and commensurable to the political mentality of the people there. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The observables represented by two operators A and B are commensurable iff A and B commute, i.e., ❋ Unknown (2009)

The results of both operations he termed irrational ratios, although he considered the first type commensurable with rational numbers, and the latter not. ❋ Kirschner, Stefan (2009)

One of these arguments is that if the diagonal and the side of a square were both composed of points, then not only would the two be commensurable in violation of Book X of Euclid, they would even be equal. ❋ Bell, John L. (2009)

As is so often the case, the categories are not commensurable. ❋ Danner, Mark (2009)

Multi-criteria analysis facilitates trade-offs among a variety of non-commensurable variables and objectives. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It is very simple that such a peripheral identity will never be commensurable with the existing societal norms and sentiments. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And then try to yield commensurable data across campuses? ❋ Unknown (2008)

Economic values, though subjective in the sense that they are relative to the agent and are not commensurable between different agents, are potentially objects of public knowledge. ❋ Unknown (2008)