About The Word Antinomy
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Antinomy
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What's The Definition Of Antinomy?Synonyms | Synonyms for Antinomy: Related Terms | Find terms related to Antinomy: ambiguity | ambivalence | asymmetry | disproportion | disproportionateness | equivocality | equivocation | heresy | heterodoxy | heterogeneity | incoherence | incommensurability | incompatibility | incongruity | inconsistency | inconsonance | irony | irreconcilability | nonconformability | nonconformity | oxymoron | paradox | self-contradiction | unconformability | unconformity | unorthodoxy See Also | Antinomy In Webster's Dictionary \An*tin"o*my\ (?; 277), n.; pl. {Antinomies}. [L.
antinomia, Gr. ?; ? against + ? 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.
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