antithetic

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The transcendental idealism, the distinction between phenomena and noumena, and the limitation of knowledge to phenomena, all receive significant confirmation from the Antithetic.

From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Falckenberg, Richard

Antithetic is not, therefore, occupied with one-sided statements, but is engaged in considering the contradictory nature of the general cognitions of reason and its causes.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow

Antithetic and axiomatic sentences abound in his pages, embodying literally the wisdom of the many in the wit of one.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various

Antithetic terms or clauses usually take opposite inflections; generally, the former has the rising, and the latter the falling inflection.

From Sanders' Union Fourth Reader by Sanders, Charles W.

The lines of a couplet or a triplet of Hebrew verse may be Synonymous, that is identical in meaning, or Supplementary and Progressive, or Antithetic.

From Jeremiah : Being The Baird Lecture for 1922 by Smith, George Adam, Sir