Commensurability (ethics)

In ethics, two values (or norms, reasons, or goods) are incommensurable (or incommensurate, or incomparable) when they do not share a common standard of measurement or cannot be compared to each other in a certain way. There is a cluster of related ideas, and many philosophers use the terms differently. On one common usage: This page is concerned almost entirely with the second phenomenon. For clarity, the term 'incomparable' is used.

Commensurability (ethics)

In ethics, two values (or norms, reasons, or goods) are incommensurable (or incommensurate, or incomparable) when they do not share a common standard of measurement or cannot be compared to each other in a certain way. There is a cluster of related ideas, and many philosophers use the terms differently. On one common usage: This page is concerned almost entirely with the second phenomenon. For clarity, the term 'incomparable' is used.