antinomy
noun
opposition between one law, principle, rule, etc., and another.
antinomies
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pluralof antinomy.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
Perhaps one of the familiar antinomies of Kant shows us the way, not, indeed, to find the solution of the riddle, but to recognise, so to speak, its geometrical position and associations.
From Naturalism And Religion by Rudolf Otto
Our history records no attainment of such an ideal; rather the two antinomies seem farther from final unity in the time of Byron than in that of Shakespeare.
From Tragedy by Ashley H. Thorndike
This difficulty led to Kant's antinomies, and hence, more or less indirectly, to much of Hegel's dialectic method.
From Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays by Bertrand Russell
