commensurability
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It seems to me to be equally evident that "more" implies commensurable magnitude; and that commensurability implies the existence of a common unit in the terms compared.
From The Moral Economy by Ralph Barton Perry
The ratio, 4:1, is not on the basis of any physical commensurability.
From Social Value A Study in Economic Theory Critical and Constructive by Benjamin M. (Benjamin McAlester) Anderson
I assume, without trying to prove here, the homogeneity and commensurability of human desires and aversions.
From Social Value A Study in Economic Theory Critical and Constructive by Benjamin M. (Benjamin McAlester) Anderson
There seems reason to admit that Kirkwood's law of commensurability has had some effect in bringing about the present distribution of the matter composing them.
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
The properties of commensurability and incommensurability in lines and surfaces, of rational and irrational lines would cease to have any meaning.
From A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Isaac Husik
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