He admits that it tells as much; saying "whatever weight is to be attached to the objections brought against this assumption [the commensurability of pleasures and pains] must of course tell against the present method.
For disturbances recurring time after time--owing to commensurability of periods--nearly at the same part of the orbit, would have accumulated until the shape of that orbit was notably changed.
There seems reason to admit that Kirkwood's law of commensurability has had some effect in bringing about the present distribution of the matter composing them.
We can scarcely doubt that this law of commensurability has largely influenced the present distribution of the asteroids.
The first and most fundamental assumption, involved not only in the empirical method of Egoistic Hedonism, but in the very conception of 'Greatest Happiness' as an end of action, is the commensurability of Pleasures and Pains.
I assume, without trying to prove here, the homogeneity and commensurability of human desires and aversions.
Thus with the ratio 1:2 the two bodies will approach closest only at one spot and always there until the perturbations induced themselves destroy the commensurability of period.
Jupiter's,--a commensurability of the first order.
Higher orders of commensurabilitymay perhaps be neglected.
As the order of commensurability becomes less simple, the corresponding breaks in the zone are less distinctly marked.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "commensurability" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: balance; comparison; equivalence; proportion; ratio; similarity
