antinomy

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

An antinomy is a proof that, since two contradictory propositions equally follow from a given assumption, that assumption must be false.

From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by Stace, W. T. (Walter Terence)

The argument coincides with that by which the thesis of the fourth antinomy is supposed.

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

One thing that especially endears the poet to his colleagues, however, is his fashionable fondness for antinomies �his perception that life is lived in impossible tension between unresolvable opposites.

From Time Magazine Archive

For like his predecessor, Kosinski explores the classic antinomies of rationality�and of experience that defeats reason and mocks humanity.

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

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

H�ffding contends that we have not yet gained the right to career rough-shod over the antinomies of existence.

From Nature Mysticism by Mercer, John Edward