Antinomy

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Contradiction or opposition, especially between two laws or rules.
  • n. A contradiction between principles or conclusions that seem equally necessary and reasonable; a paradox.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An apparent contradiction between valid conclusions; a paradox
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Opposition of one law or rule to another law or rule.
  • n. An opposing law or rule of any kind.
  • n. 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The opposition of one law, rule, or principle to another.
  • n. Any law, rule, or principle opposed to another.
  • n. In metaphysics, according to Kant, an unavoidable contradiction into which reason falls when it applies to the transcendent and absolute the a priori conceptions of the understanding (categories: see category, 1), which are valid only within the limits of possible experience.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a contradiction between two statements that seem equally reasonable
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