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irreconcilability

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Perhaps more compelling than either, Ross suggests, is the irreconcilability of the problem.

From Slate Oct. 17, 2020

To understand the irreconcilability of these two impulses, consider a helmet-cam video two years ago of a fireman in Fresno, Calif., saving a kitten trapped inside a smoke-filled home.

From New York Times Jun. 12, 2015

Alan Ayckbourn's play about the irreconcilability of family values and untrammelled capitalism summed up the Thatcherite 1980s better than any other play.

From The Guardian Jan. 30, 2013

It is this innate irreconcilability of pitch that, through the centuries, has driven men mad.

From Slate Apr. 20, 2010

I have italicised the last sentence, to show that Butler was more or less conscious of its irreconcilability with much of his most characteristic doctrine. 

From Unconscious Memory by Butler, Samuel