antinomy
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The Antinomy is a combination of arguments by which contradictory attributes are proved to be predicable of the same subject.
From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Read, Carveth
Anyhow, in the land of Atlantis or Antinomy a child was born in this manner and grew up not with Mother or Father but in independence and its relationship with the Earth and the sun.
From Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America by Sills, Steven (Steven David Justin)
Antinomy simply expresses a fact, and forces itself imperatively on the mind; contradiction, properly speaking, is an absurdity.
From System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery by Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)
And, accordingly, the Antinomy, if it cannot be imputed to Reason herself, may be a very fair, and a very wholesome argumentum ad hominem.
From Logic Deductive and Inductive by Read, Carveth
Antinomy, an′ti-nom-i, or an-tin′o-mi, n. a contradiction in a law: a conflict of authority: conclusions discrepant though apparently logical.—adjs.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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