(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) This apparent antinomy may be related to a decrease in oxygen consumption because of the relation of volume-surface and, in very old rats (590-700 days old), to a selection process wherby only the hypoxiaresistant rats reach old age.
(2) Existential analysis has made us face the paradoxes, if not antinomies, in psychotherapy that we did not seem to be aware of.
(3) If such a risk cannot be excluded, it is nevertheless necessary to reveal the fallacious antinomy that underlies this controversy and consists in opposing an organic disorder, used as an alibi, to the claim of an utter liberty.
(4) These differences are not reconcilable because they are directly opposed; only the principle of complementarity, as described in the paper, permits a constructive approach to the antinomies.
(5) In his anthropological presupposition, he sees the social dimension either only in ontological terms as antinomy between persons or in terms of individualpsychology in its intrapsychic effect and individual ways of control.
(6) Since the time of the Zervanite, some antinomies in philosophic and physical chronology are found.
(7) The present paper mentions the antinomies of PLATON, ARISTOELES, NEWTON, MILNE and the modern palebiology.
(8) In our free-market-dominated culture, which, according to Unger, reduces the world to false antinomies, Bennett would have, presumably, been better advised to prevaricate, rather than try to give an honest response to a typically narrow and loaded question.