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Webster 1913 Edition


Antinomy

An-tin′o-my

(?; 277)
,
Noun.
;
pl.
Antinomies
.
[L.
antinomia
, Gr. [GREEK];
ἀντί
against + [GREEK] law.]
1.
Opposition of one law or rule to another law or rule.
Different commentators have deduced from it the very opposite doctrines. In some instances this apparent
antinomy
is doubtful.
De Quincey.
2.
An opposing law or rule of any kind.
As it were by his own
antinomy
, or counterstatute.
Milton.
3.
(Metaph.)
A contradiction or incompatibility of thought or language; – in the Kantian philosophy, such a contradiction as arises from the attempt to apply to the ideas of the reason, relations or attributes which are appropriate only to the facts or the concepts of experience.

Webster 1828 Edition


Antinomy

AN'TINOMY

,
Noun.
A contradiction between two laws, or between two parts of the same law.

Definition 2024


antinomy

antinomy

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Noun

antinomy (plural antinomies)

  1. An apparent contradiction between valid conclusions; a paradox

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  • Kant used antinomy (Critique of Pure Reason, Bloom translation) to speak of two valid conclusions that appeared to contradict each other, but that could be resolved when it was seen that they were from two distinct and exclusive sets. So no paradox exists, only the inappropriate application of an idea from one setbeing applied to anothercauses a seeming paradox.

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