Because truths of different kinds exhibit the characteristics of incommensurability (their difference is such that they cannot be measured by a single standard or reduced to members of one series) and incompossibility (their difference is such that they cannot co-exist within the same system), such openness introduces both multiplicity and contradiction, and the creature in question stands divided against himself.


pp. 9-10 - Personal Destinies: A Philosophy of Ethical Individualism (1976)


Because truths of different kinds exhibit the characteristics of incommensurability (their difference is such that they cannot be measured by a...

Because truths of different kinds exhibit the characteristics of incommensurability (their difference is such that they cannot be measured by a...

Because truths of different kinds exhibit the characteristics of incommensurability (their difference is such that they cannot be measured by a...

Because truths of different kinds exhibit the characteristics of incommensurability (their difference is such that they cannot be measured by a...