Maximization accounts of proportionality are susceptible, he argues, to two well-known criticisms: the
incommensurability objection (chapter 3) and the problem of moral blindness (chapters 4 and 5).
The four basic concepts of the theory are: moral order, public discourse,
incommensurability and transcendent discourse.
Macleod's final lines leave a testament to this belief: "I use the stars as wisely as I can / With migrant man as faith to migrant man." Macleod's "migrant man" offers a useful caption to the
incommensurability of personality in the face of astrological movement and planetary eclipses.
Sphere of Influence hints at the origin of life and its endless possibilities, and, like birth, the
incommensurability of the universe.
But consideration of the facts of evolutionary history and of the conceptual relations between infinity and
incommensurability reveals that there are no infinite welfare differences among living things.
The search begins with trying to conceptualize how thought and language could determine reality, and, even more so, trying to find, as well as prove how the
incommensurability of languages is not insurmountable.
Anti-Machiavellian Ranciere: Aesthetic Cartography, Sites of
Incommensurability and Processes of Experimentation
It thus seems to me that perhaps a certain
incommensurability must always remain regardless of whatever variety of hermeneutic philosophy one prefers to deploy when adjudicating competing religious claims.