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Taming Fantastic Beasts of Mathematics: Struggling with Incommensurability

International Journal of Research in Undergraduate Mathematics Education, 2021
A. Sfard
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STEGMÜLLER ON KUHN AND INCOMMENSURABILITY

The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 1982
The so-called incommensurability thesis has emerged as undoubtedly the single most controversial and questioned feature of Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Many critics, unable to accept the proposition that rival pairs of theories or paradigms might be noncomparable by any of the usual standards, accused Kuhn of thus propagating ...
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Incommensurability

1988
Abstract Two options are incommensurable if it is neither true that one of them is better than the other, nor true that they are of equal value. A test of incommensurability between two options, which yields a sufficient but not necessary condition of incommensurability, is that there is, or could be, another option that is better than ...
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Microlevel Prioritizations and Incommensurability

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 2017
Abstract:This article addresses the prioritization questions that arise when people attempt to institutionalize reasonable ethical principles and create guidelines for microlevel decisions. I propose that this instantiates an incommensurability problem, and suggest two different kinds of practical solutions for dealing with this issue.
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Equality, Incommensurability, and Rights

2003
Abstract In The Morality of Freedom, Joseph Raz plausibly proposes the following statement as the general form of strictly egalitarian principles: ‘All Fs who do not have G have a right to G if some Fs have G’. He then proceeds to mount a sustained criticism of such principles as being deeply implausible.
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Incommensurability

Inquiry, 1983
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Innovation incommensurability and the science park

, 2018
H. Etzkowitz, Chun-Yan Zhou
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Incommensurability and hardness

Philosophical Studies
Chrisoula Andreou
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On incommensurability

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 1996
Paul Hoyningen-Huene, Eric Oberheim, Hanne Andersen   +2 more
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Incommensurability Pragmatized

2005
RHONDA MARTENS, CARL MATHESON
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