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US
/æˈtɪnoʊˌmi/
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NOUN
- a contradiction between two statements that seem equally reasonable
How To Use antinomy In A Sentence
- In light of the examples of occult texts offered above, occult discourse is the result of a rhetorical antinomy between a belief and an action.
- A constructional model may deal with some of these issues otherwise and arrive at different conclusions, which do not always imply the antinomy, in some cases.
- Recognizing the contradiction of aims as an antinomy would also point to one of the missing links in Habermas's theory.
- This antinomy, perceived by reason and resolved by faith, is the standard paradox of Renaissance humanism, and we have met it in many shapes.
- The antinomy is the conflict inherent in the “cosmological idea” of the world as a whole; looked at historically, it is the conflict between opposing theories in rational cosmology (one of the four divisions of metaphysics in the Leibniz-Wolffian system then current in Germany). ANTINOMY OF PURE REASON
- I. Packer seeks to reconcile the paradox by appealing to the notion of antinomy! ExChristian.Net -- encouraging ex-Christians
- An antinomy is a pair of mutually exclusive philosophical claims (there is a God; there isn't a God) both of which are equally open to philosophic proof / disproof.
- Hence what Kant called the antinomy of taste: Thesis -- the judgment of taste is not based on principles, for otherwise we would determine it by proofs; antithesis -- the judgment of taste is based on principles, for otherwise, despite our disagreements, we should not be quarreling about it. The Principles of Aesthetics
- The antinomy is comprised of a seemingly contradictory stance among occultists and mystics that, on the one hand, regards spiritual truths as ineffable, but on the other, assumes that there is much to say about ineffability.
- Kant calls the antinomy of pure reason “the most singular phenomenon of human reason” and praises it as “a very powerful agent to arouse philosophy from its dogmatic slumber and to stimulate it to the arduous task of undertaking a critique of reason itself” ANTINOMY OF PURE REASON
