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Meta-incommensurability Revisited [PDF]
Theoria, 2014 A popular rejoinder to the potential threat that incommensurability might pose to scientific realism has been the referential response: despite meaning variance, there can be referential continuity, which is sufficient for rational theory choice.
Hyundeuk Cheon
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Thomas Kuhn’s Incommensurability and Relativism [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفه, 2022 One of the central notions in Thomas Kuhn’s thought is the notion of incommensurability. Generally, we can distinguish two kinds of incommensurability: methodological and semantic incommensurability.
Hassan Amiriara
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Incomparability and Incommensurability in Choice: No Common Currency of Value? [PDF]
Perspect Psychol Sci, 2021 Models of decision-making typically assume the existence of some common currency of value, such as utility, happiness, or inclusive fitness. This common currency is taken to allow comparison of options and to underpin everyday choice.
Walasek L, Brown GDA.
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Semantic embeddings reveal and address taxonomic incommensurability in psychological measurement. [PDF]
Nat Hum BehavTaxonomic incommensurability denotes the difficulty in comparing scientific theories due to different uses of concepts and operationalizations. To tackle this problem in psychology, here we use language models to obtain semantic embeddings representing ...
Wulff DU, Mata R.
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Pluralism and Incommensurability [PDF]
, 2017 This chapter opens with an account of commensurability and the assumption of mainstream economists that money can serve as a universal measure for valuation. It considers meaning of value monism and value pluralism and their relationship to commensurability.
J. O'Neill
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Incommensurability and healthcare priority setting
Philosophical StudiesThis paper argues that accepting incommensurability can be a useful step for developing attractive hybrid theories to how to distribute scarce health-related resources.
Anders Herlitz
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Effectiveness analysis and value incommensurability [PDF]
Cost Effectiveness and Resource AllocationThis paper argues that in many contexts where effectiveness analysis such as benefit-cost analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis is used, we have good reason to think that some benefits or costs are incommensurable in value such that neither can be ...
Anders Herlitz
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Incommensurability and laboratory science [PDF]
Philosophia Scientiæ, 2004 The aim of the article is to establish relations between Kuhn’s general characterization of incommensurability as the impossibility to translate the taxonomies pertaining to rival scientific theories into one another and Hacking’s more specific version ...
Emiliano Trizio
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Incommensurability enabled quasi-fractal order in 1D narrow-band moiré systems [PDF]
Nature Physics, 2023 A moiré potential—the superposition of two periodic potentials with different wavelengths—will either introduce a new periodicity into a system if the two potentials are commensurate or force the system to be quasiperiodic if they are not.
Miguel Gonçalves +4 more
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Hypatia, 2023 Indigenous language activists talk about incommensurability all the time—in interesting ways that link language and knowledge as components of Indigenous lifeways that can't be disentangled.
Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner
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