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Antinomy

noun
(pl. antinomies)
1.
A contradiction between two statements that seem equally reasonable.





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"Antinomy" Quotes from Famous Books



... life. Society seeks to control them by the pressure of law and custom. These powerful forces, however, are external, and, savoring more or less of tyranny, tend at times to awaken a rebellious spirit in the hotheaded. So a perpetual antinomy would exist between internal impulse and external constraint, were it not that that external constraint is reflected within the individual mind by a secondary and overlying set of inhibitions and promptings ...
— Problems of Conduct • Durant Drake


Words linked to "Antinomy" :   contradiction, contradiction in terms


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