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- noun Plural form of
antilogy .
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Examples
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Origen has recourse too easily to allegorism to explain purely apparent antilogies or antinomies.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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Mood and Figure the pretentious antilogies which they foist upon the public; and, indeed, such licences of composition often prevent honest men from detecting errors into which they themselves have unwittingly fallen, and which, with the best intentions, they strive to communicate to others: but we put up with these drawbacks to avoid the inelegance and the tedium of a long discourse in accurate syllogisms.
Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889
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True there are imperfections in the Bible: antilogies, repetitions, want of continuity; but these imperfections become perfections by leading us to the allegory and the spiritual meaning (Philoc.,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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