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- noun Common misspelling of
antinomies .
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Examples
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Volume IV consists of the biography of Derrick Mosley in symbolic form, but, due to its numerous antimonies, it never really sold.
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His love of political unions and physical unity, the holding together of antimonies: these themes find their source in America's inexorable slide into the Civil War.
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The aphorisms can be thought of as Kantian antimonies, except that they are not meant to be resolved in a more encompassing formula, but as showing restricted turths about the world, such as that water, which would be a singular thing to Heraclitus, both helps some creatures to survive while killing others.
Heraclitus' Home Truths Wenglingsky, Martin 1982
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Such a deadlock leads to one of Kant's antimonies of reason where debaters of equal rationality come to two semmingly reasonable conclusions: namely either the need of an uncaused first cause or the validity of an infinitely regressing eternal series of causes and effects.
The Reality Check 2009
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Such a deadlock leads to one of Kant's antimonies of reason where debaters of equal rationality come to two semmingly reasonable conclusions: namely either the need of an uncaused first cause or the validity of an infinitely regressing eternal series of causes and effects.
Baltimore Reporter 2009
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The challenge to the reader is wading through densely written passages that touch upon metaphysical conundrums, language games, theories of the self, and tantalizing antimonies such as "the barber who shaves all and only those who do not shave themselves."
McSweeney's 2008
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His love of political unions and physical unity, the holding together of antimonies: these themes find their source in America’s inexorable slide into the Civil War.
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His love of political unions and physical unity, the holding together of antimonies: these themes find their source in America’s inexorable slide into the Civil War.
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