commensuration

But in commensuration of our wages With our desert is portion of our joy, Because we see them neither less nor greater.

Corporate Responses in an Emerging Climate Regime: The Institutionalization and Commensuration of Carbon Disclosure.

"Anyone who's producing these numbers knows exactly all the assumptions, all the uncertainty," said Wendy N. Espeland, a sociologist at Northwestern University who studies commensuration, the turning of things into numbers.

One tradition of interpretation, exemplified by his critics such as Eric Lenneberg, Max Black and Steven Pinker, attributes to Whorf a very strong view of linguistic determinism, according to which commensuration between conceptual schemes and translation between languages are impossible.

Another tradition of interpretation, exemplified in the work of linguists including John A. Lucy, Michael Silverstein and Stephen C. Levinson, points to the many places in Whorf's writings where he explicitly rejects determinism, and where he clearly notes that translation and commensuration between linguistic conceptual schemes is possible.