'incommensurability' in David Foster Wallace and "The Long Thing": New Essays on the Novels | Bookmarker

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having no common measure; origins in ancient Greek mathematics and popularised by philosopher Thomas Kuhn

these two types of notes' incommensurability exemplifies the major critical conflict over the nature of encyclopedic novels themselves

—p.129 Encyclopedic Novels and the Cruft of Fiction: Infinite Jest's Endnotes (127) by David Letzler

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