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
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 B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower
We must not make an antinomy of egoism and altruism, but regard them as two elements inseparable from all human society, as well as the individuals who compose it.
From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Auguste Forel
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
The case is different with the dynamical antinomies, where thesis and antithesis can both be true, in so far as the former is referred to things in themselves and the latter to phenomena.
From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg
We must respect the fruitful antinomies of life from which the necessary progress springs.
From Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History by Auguste Sabatier
The system of antitheses, contradictions, and antinomies, upon which Hegel constructed his absolute idealism, has its root and germ in Kant himself, and this root is an irrational root.
From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch
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