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
The second antinomy illustrates the dependence of the problem of continuity upon that of infinity.
From Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
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
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
Perhaps one of the familiar antinomies of Kant shows us the way, not, indeed, to find the solution of the riddle, but to recognise, so to speak, its geometrical position and associations.
From Naturalism And Religion by Rudolf Otto
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
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
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