Griffin denies that pluralism entails incommensurability (Griffin uses the term incomparability) whereas other pluralists embrace incommensurability, but deny that it entails that rational choice is impossible. ❋ Mason, Elinor (2006)
But, interestingly, the whole question of incommensurability and incomparability is at the center of a new paper I am completing on the vexed issue of proportionality in the laws of war. ❋ Unknown (2010)
So if pluralism leads to this kind of incomparability, then pluralism must be false. ❋ Schroeder, Mark (2008)
The incomparability principle entails that if the afflicted partner can just wait a month, take an inexpensive pill, and cure this condition, there is nothing moral (as opposed to prudential) to say in favor of doing this. ❋ Unknown (2007)
This is a problem for the idea that incomparability can be explained by value pluralism. ❋ Schroeder, Mark (2008)
Many discussions of the incomparability of values proceed at a very abstract level, and interchange examples of each of these kinds of value claims. ❋ Schroeder, Mark (2008)
These are just some examples of kinds of incomparability and incommensurability; a more detailed discussion of the commensurability of values can be found in the entry on incommensurable values. ❋ Schroeder, Mark (2008)
Even once it is agreed that good simpliciter is incomparable in this sense, many theories have been offered as to what that incomparability involves and why it exists. ❋ Schroeder, Mark (2008)
Since the notion of parity is itself a theoretical idea about how to account for what happens when the other three relations fail to obtain, a question which I won't pursue here, it will be weak incomparability that will interest us here. ❋ Schroeder, Mark (2008)
For example, a typical example of a purported incomparability might compare, say, Mozart to Rodin. ❋ Schroeder, Mark (2008)
Constraints like these can narrow down the viable theories about what is going on in cases of incomparability, in our sense, and are evidence that incomparability is probably not going to be straightforwardly explained by value pluralism, at least in the kind of way mentioned in the last section. ❋ Schroeder, Mark (2008)
If none of these is the case, then we have an example of incomparability in attributive good, but not an example of incomparability in good simpliciter. ❋ Schroeder, Mark (2008)
There are many other kinds of theses that go under the title of the incomparability or incommensurability of values. ❋ Schroeder, Mark (2008)
The claim that it can sometimes happen that none of these is true is sometimes referred to as the claim of incomparability, in this case as applied to good simpliciter. ❋ Schroeder, Mark (2008)
Monica, You make an excellent and indisputable point about the incomparability of the museums in New York, but even setting aside NYC, the museums in SF don't really measure up to the standards of many other American cities, even cities which many San Franciscans love to sneer at. ❋ Sfmike (2008)
For example, one important argument against the incomparability of value was mentioned in the previous section. ❋ Schroeder, Mark (2008)
It is important to distinguish the question of whether good simpliciter admits of incomparability from the question of whether good for and attributive good admit of incomparability. ❋ Schroeder, Mark (2008)
However, we can distinguish between weak incomparability, defined as above, and strong incomparability, further requiring the lack of parity, whatever that turns out to be. ❋ Schroeder, Mark (2008)
The argument from value pluralism to incomparability suggested, if it worked, that it would be impossible to compare any two states of affairs where one contained more of one basic value and the other contained more of another. ❋ Schroeder, Mark (2008)
You're [incomparable] like a.... ❋ Gothicgrandma667 (2017)
You should only contrast [Nikki] and [Brie] as they are [incomparable]. ❋ Nombrepseudo (2020)
