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  • On the other, sometimes in the same breath, winkingly defining political deviancy down, telling Hustonian tales of antinomial subterfuge.

    Rick Perlstein: 'I Didn't Like Nixon Until Watergate': The Conservative Movement Now 2008

  • In each of these antinomial conflicts, reason finds itself at an impasse.

    Kant's Critique of Metaphysics Grier, Michelle 2007

  • Now there is nothing to hinder us from admitting these ideas to possess an objective and hyperbolic existence, except the cosmological ideas, which lead reason into an antinomy: the psychological and theological ideas are not antinomial.

    The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 1764

  • And thus, too, the antinomial conflict of reason with itself is completely put an end to; inasmuch as we have not only presented a critical solution of the fallacy lurking in the opposite statements of reason, but have shown the true meaning of the ideas which gave rise to these statements.

    The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 1764

  • Nothing, which is Pure Being under another name; whatever it is, our acquaintance with it is not knowledge of it, since whatever we can find out about it is based on the Criticism exercised by Pure Reason and not on experience; and the information which Pure Reason gives us about the soul is not categorical but antinomial; and by the time medicine gets into these transcendental regions, consciously or unconsciously, it ceases to be of much practical use in curing

    The White Sister 1881

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