incommensurability

American  

[in-kuh-men-ser-uh-bil-uh-tee] / ˌɪn kəˌmɛn sər əˈbɪl ə ti /

noun

plural

incommensurabilities

1. the state or quality of being incommensurable.

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Example Sentences

One of the first mathematical proofs in history was about the incommensurability/irrationality of the square’s diagonal.

From Literature

Everyone in the Pythagorean brotherhood was already tight-lipped—nobody was allowed even to take written notes—and the incommensurability of the square root of two became the deepest, darkest secret of the Pythagorean order.

From Literature

He favored the particular over the general, the obstinate incommensurability of actual human experience over the oily blandness of ideology.

From Washington Post

So, obviously, my views are closer to the early Kuhn: The apparent incommensurability of paradigms arises from an ahistorical view of science, where we see these things in isolation and we don't understand the process by which we got from one to the other.

From Salon

He does not propose "incommensurability."

From Salon