antinomy

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

An antinomy is a proof that, since two contradictory propositions equally follow from a given assumption, that assumption must be false.

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

The antinomy would hardly strike a modern Englishman as odd, but it was anomalous in what was already a thoroughly democratic state.

From A History of the United States by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

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

Newman, for example, defends a belief in transubstantiation by dwelling upon the antinomies involved in the argument for a Deity.

From The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice by Sir Leslie Stephen

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

These antinomies represent the obstacles to national unity.

From The Psychology of Nations A Contribution to the Philosophy of History by G.E. Partridge