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antinomy

[an-tin-uh-mee] / ænˈtɪn ə mi /




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Philosophers similarly examined the antinomy of the individual and the group, shaped by the periods of history and the dialectic.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 31, 2021

“The essay is structurally flawed by a false antinomy, an either/or scenario doomed to generate opinions rather than dialogue. Anyway, who wants to have an argument that only has two sides?”

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 28, 2019

When Heidl is willing to talk to Kehlmann, he talks in a qualmless gala of paranoia and parentheses, of non sequitur and evasion, of conspiracy and antinomy, of sundered sermons.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 4, 2018

In some instances this apparent antinomy is doubtful.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster

The fourfold antinomy of Kant will be shown, in the criticism of his philosophy appended to this volume, to be a groundless delusion.

From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Many problems facing the church in Asian countries today stem as much from changing social and cultural conditions as they do from traditional antinomies.

From Time Magazine Archive

TIN SWE Rangoon, Burma Sir: Although I am not a Buddhist, I interpreted your article on the subject as an unregenerate evaluation of the antinomies of a great religion.

From Time Magazine Archive

Kant found in the moral sense of humanity his door of escape from the fatal relativity of pure reason with its confounding antinomies.

From The Complex Vision by John Cowper Powys

There are four of these antinomies, or conflicts.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics by Sir John Alexander Hammerton

The power of words on the human mind produces antinomies which do not really exist; such is the case with the terms vice and disease.

From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Auguste Forel




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