Dimensional versus conceptual incommensurability in the social and behavioral sciences.

This commentary analyzes the extent to which the incommensurability problem can be resolved through the proposed alternative method of integrative experiment design. We suggest that, although one aspect of incommensurability is successfully addressed ( dimensional incommensurability ), the proposed design space method does not yet alleviate another major source of discontinuity, which we call conceptual incommensurability .