antinomy

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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

Indeed this contradiction, which develops entirely of itself and can neither be escaped nor solved, might quite properly be set up as a chemical antinomy.

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

It has happened to each king of Prussia since that time to perform some colossal task, grounded in an irreducible antinomy.

From The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)