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  • Antinomian.
  • Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of antinomy; containing antinomies; involving a conflict of laws.

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  • adjective Exhibiting or pertaining to antinomy; contradictory.

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Examples

  • Being at once an extreme skeptic and an extreme believer generated in Dostoevsky a chronically antinomic state of mind which he surreptitiously relished, I believe, even as he tried to conceal it from his readers and especially from his patrons, including the renowned Pobedonstsev who belonged to aristocratic and official circles.

    A Special Supplement: The Other Dostoevsky Rahv, Philip 1972

  • But in neither of the later Critiques is the doctrine of the antinomy worked out with the extensive detail and wide ramifi - cations to be found in the first, and the antinomic form of argument is not entirely suitable to Kant's intentions in these works.

    ANTINOMY OF PURE REASON LEWIS WHITE BECK 1968

  • On Crusius as an antinomic thinker with resemblances to and influence upon Kant, see Heimsoeth's Studien zur

    ANTINOMY OF PURE REASON LEWIS WHITE BECK 1968

  • The antinomic procedure was extravagantly devel - oped by Fichte and Hegel, Hegel complaining that

    ANTINOMY OF PURE REASON LEWIS WHITE BECK 1968

  • The Left has also prioritized Marcuse's antinomic concept of "discriminatory tolerance" or

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  • Zeno as the inventor of the antinomic mode of argu - mentation or the “skeptical method” “of watching, or rather provoking, a conflict of assertions, not for the purpose of deciding in favor of one or the other side, but of investigating whether the object of the contro - versy is not perhaps a deceptive appearance which each vainly tries to grasp, and in regard to which, even if there were no opposition to overcome, neither can arrive at any result” (Critique of Pure Reason, 2nd. ed., p. 451; all page references to this edition).

    ANTINOMY OF PURE REASON LEWIS WHITE BECK 1968

  • Either it ends up with a pale sort of humanism, a conception of the good and the good society derived from the essential nature of man and his basic needs — a lapse into the Feuerbachianisms rejected by Marx — or it denies the possibility of a universally valid norm of conduct for man or society, stresses the uniqueness of the individual moral act, makes every situation in which two or more individuals are involved an antinomic one in which right conflicts with right and self with self.

    MARXISM SIDNEY HOOK 1968

  • Among Kant's predecessors who employed explicitly antinomic arguments and who may have specifically influenced him were Arthur Collier in his treatment of space (Clavis universalis, 1713), and Christian August Crusius in his treatment of causality and freedom (Entwurf der nothwendigen

    ANTINOMY OF PURE REASON LEWIS WHITE BECK 1968

  • Such an antinomic pair are, "He that loveth not knoweth not

    Daily Thoughts selected from the writings of Charles Kingsley by his wife Charles Kingsley 1847

  • Twitter feed, there isn't a day where I don't read two antinomic tweets from the same person proclaiming " I had an amazing personal training session today, I feel so good " followed a couple of hours later by "Off to the pub!

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Laetitia Wajnapel 2011

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