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 W. T. (Walter Terence) Stace

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

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 first of the antinomies is also the most impressive.

From Naturalism And Religion by Rudolf Otto

Again, this law that the truth is found in the balance of the antinomies appears in man's equal passion for continuity and permanency and for variety and change.

From Preaching and Paganism by Albert Parker Fitch

There are antinomies in politics as in philosophy, problems where the difficulty lies in reconciling facts indubitably true but mutually contradictory.

From British Supremacy & Canadian Self-Government, 1839-1854 by J. L. (John Lyle) Morison