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antinomy

[an-tin-uh-mee] / ænˈtɪn ə mi /




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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

As it were by his own antinomy, or counterstatute.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster

Thus an antinomy appears in the one extreme of natural science, and a corresponding one will appear in the other.

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

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

Our history records no attainment of such an ideal; rather the two antinomies seem farther from final unity in the time of Byron than in that of Shakespeare.

From Tragedy by Ashley H. Thorndike

Outside space and time, the principle of causation only engenders insoluble antinomies.

From Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion based on Psychology and History by Auguste Sabatier

An essay in this philosophy, with its inevitable internal contradictions and antinomies, is what I have attempted in these essays.

From Tragic Sense Of Life by J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford) Flitch


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