Definition of Antinomy

An`tin´o`my
n.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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