People tend to rank values of all kinds linearly from good to bad, but there is little reason to think that this is reasonable or correct.
A deliberately post-deconstructionist manifesto against the dangers of incommensurability, Marcel Detienne's book argues for and engages in the constructive comparison of societies of a great temporal and spatial diversity.
... definition incorporates something of Popper's idea that truthlikeness is a mixture of truth value and content ... incomparable , but no false theory is actually allowed to be more truthlike than a true theory . This principle has ...
Authored by a group of leading European psychoanalysts, this book explores ways for psychoanalysts using different approaches to learn from each other when they present their work to fellow psychoanalysts, and provides tools for the ...
... incomparable node pairs (x, y) can have my = 0. We show next that each FPO which is not an FLO has at least one incomparable node pair (x, y) with my > 0. Definition 6 If {x, y) is an incomparable node pair, we say y is maximal for x if ...
... incomparable. Definition 5. Let s1 and s2 be two nodes in the Hasse graph. s1 and s2 are comparable if and only if there is a path between s1 and s2. Definition 6. Let s1 and s2 be two nodes in the Hasse graph. s1 and s2 are incomparable ...
... Incomparable things said incom- parably well . 1870 ROGERS Hist . Gleanings Ser . 11. 115 Strafford..was incomparably the abler of the two . + Incompared , a . Obs . rare - 1 . [ IN - 3 . ] Un- matched , matchless , peerless , incomparable ...
... definition , 27 first element : definition , 11 Fishburn , P.C. , 34 , 47 , 86 , 190 , 205 , 206 , 207 , 208 , 211 ... incomparable pairs : definition , 98 ideal : definition , 27 incidence poset of a graph : definition , 128 ...