antinomy
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Antinomy, in the transcendental philosophy the contradiction which arises when we carry the categories of the understanding above experience and apply them to the sphere of that which transcends it.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin
There would have been a different reality if Antinomy had been a little island off of our beloved motherland of Antarctica.
From Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America by Sills, Steven (Steven David Justin)
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
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
"Unlike present day Ithaca, in the land of Ancient Atlantis, which the residents of this small island called Antinomy, there was harmony."
From Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America by Sills, Steven (Steven David Justin)
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