antinomy
Americannoun
plural
antinomies-
opposition between one law, principle, rule, etc., and another.
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Philosophy. a contradiction between two statements, both apparently obtained by correct reasoning.
noun
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opposition of one law, principle, or rule to another; contradiction within a law
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philosophy contradiction existing between two apparently indubitable propositions; paradox
Other Word Forms
- antinomic adjective
- antinomical adjective
- antinomically adverb
Etymology
Origin of antinomy
1585–95; < Latin antinomia < Greek antinomía a contradiction between laws. See anti-, -nomy
Example Sentences
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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 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 Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
It has happened to each king of Prussia since that time to perform some colossal task, grounded in an irreducible antinomy.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891 by Flower, B. O. (Benjamin Orange)
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