Crossword-Solution: INCOMMENSURABILITY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Incommensurability | n. | The quality or state of being incommensurable. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATEER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with INCOMMENSURABILITY (5)
The solar year, the lunar month, and the day were the units, and it is owing to their incommensurability that we find so many calendars proposed and in use at different times.
Well then; do men deliberate about everything, and is anything soever the object of Deliberation, or are there some matters with respect to which there is none? (It may be as well perhaps to say, that by “object of Deliberation” is meant such matter as a sensible man would deliberate upon, not what any fool or madman might.) Well: about eternal things no one deliberates; as, for instance, the universe, or the incommensurability of the diameter and side of a square.
Aristotle mentions an ancient proof of the incommensurability of the diagonal with the side by a _reductio ad absurdum_ showing that, if the diagonal were commensurable with the side, it would follow that one and the same number is both odd and even.
Theodorus, Plato's teacher in mathematics, extended the theory of the irrational by proving incommensurability in certain particular cases other than that of the diagonal of a square in relation to its side, which was already known.
Rudio, _Archimedes, Huygens, Lambert, Legendre,--mit einer Uebersicht über die Geschichte des Problemes von der Quadratur des Zirkels_, Leipsic, 1892; Thomas Muir, "Circle," in the eleventh edition of the _Encyclopædia Britannica_; the various histories of mathematics; and to his own article on "The Incommensurability of [pi]" in Prof.
Quotes with INCOMMENSURABILITY (2)
Beatitude starts in the moment when the act of thinking has freed itself from the necessity of form. Beatitude starts at the moment when the thinking-feeling has surpassed the author's need to thinking - he no longer needs to think and now finds himself close to the grandeur of the nothing. I could say of the "everything". But "everything" is a quanitity, and quantity has a limit in its very beginning. The true incommensurability is the nothing, which has no barriers adn wher…
The incommensurability between the modern economic system and the people who staff it explains why modern workers have so often been depicted as 'cogs' in the larger 'machinery' of industrial civilization; for while the practical rationalization of enterprise does require workers to be consistent, predictable, precise, uniform, and even to a certain extent creative, it does not really require them to be persons, that is, to live examined lives, to grow, to develop character, …