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Definition of Incommensurably
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Incommensurably
Literary usage of Incommensurably
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Elements of a New Arithmetical Notation: And of a New Arithmetic of by Thomas Taylor (1823)
"The sum, however, of these two series is equal to 2, ie to -f. Hence the former
of these series is incommensurably -f , and the latter is %. ..."
2. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1894)
"It therefore has a nature incommensurably transcending in efficiency and import
the group of percepts we call our body, as well as the group of other ..."
3. Creative Evolution by Henri Bergson (1911)
"... which fragments, being themselves shells, burst in their turn into fragments
destined to burst again, and so on for a time incommensurably long. ..."
4. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1908)
"Although, as we know them in their present forms, they seem incommensurably
different from the life of the physical universe, they are, in fact, ..."
5. The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James (1911)
"... or fortitude, to be from a moral point of view incommensurably inferior to a
world framed to elicit from the man every form of triumphant endurance and ..."
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