antinomy

Noun

antinomy (countable and uncountable, plural antinomies)

1. (archaic) A contradiction within a law, or between different laws; also, a contradiction between authorities.
2. (broadly) Any contradiction or paradox.
   • The Antinomians: These Gospell-truths, these sweet Sermons of Free-grace, that setting up of naked Christ on his Throne, which hath seduced so many thousands of well-meaning souls, do now appear in their own colours, and to any common eye may be seen to be nothing but the grosse Antinomy of the old...1645, Robin Jeffs, Fast sermons to Parliament, page 14
   • There is, notwithstanding, a sort of Manicheism in genius, as there is the antinomy in science, as there are light and shade in art, as there are opposite and similarly appearing movements in life, as there are diverse and simultaneous springs in the human conscience, as there are attraction and...1888, José M. Aguirre, An Open Letter to James G. Blaine, page 27

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   antinome

   1. (broadly, specifically) In the thought of the German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724–1804): an apparent contradiction between valid conclusions; a paradox.
      • This introduces the antinomy that has followed us through the whole study. The solution of this antinomy is found in making the Not-me, which interrupts self-consciousness, really reflect self-consciousness, by manifesting the nature of the I—in other words, by making it conform to the ideal of the...1884, Charles Carroll Everett, Fichte’s Science of Knowledge: A Critical Exposition, page 12
      • Of the work that has been done on the liar antinomy, possibly the most profound and certainly the most influential has been that of Tarski1991, Vann McGee, Truth, Vagueness, & Paradox: An Essay on the Logic of Truth, page 67