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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

The antinomy we are considering arises from considering one side of the truth in a false abstraction from the other.

From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by W. T. (Walter Terence) Stace

To bring our examples to a conclusion, we find the same sort of antinomy in regard to space, and the world as it is extended in space.

From Naturalism And Religion by Rudolf Otto

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

This difficulty led to Kant's antinomies, and hence, more or less indirectly, to much of Hegel's dialectic method.

From Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell

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

Of course these seeming contradictions of Scripture and antinomies of reason are not real contradictions.

From Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke




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