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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as antinomic.

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  • adjective Alternative form of antinomic.

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Examples

  • This term designates both the habitual forms and attitudes of the human mental apparatus, and the experiences of the mind as it recognizes these attitudes as falsely objectivized moments within its antinomical structure, and as it transcends these limits by disposing itself in new ways towards itself and its objects.

    Karl Jaspers Thornhill, Chris 2006

  • The two versions of the first premise ((2) and (2*)) of the argument claim the following: if it is true that we can think about the noumena, then the antinomical premises are about the noumena and either are true or have overwhelming intuitive support.

    Warranted Christian Belief 1932- 2000

  • Thus there is an allegedly compelling antinomical argument for the thesis that the world had a beginning in time, but an equally compelling argument for the antithesis that it did not.

    Warranted Christian Belief 1932- 2000

  • Isn't it equally apparent that if we can think about the phenomena, then the antinomical premises are about the phenomena and are either true or have overwhelming support?

    Warranted Christian Belief 1932- 2000

  • (2*) If we can refer to and think about the Dinge, then each of the premises of the antinomical arguments will be about the Dinge and have overwhelming intuitive support.

    Warranted Christian Belief 1932- 2000

  • That is just that the antinomical arguments are not, to put the best face on it, at all compelling.

    Warranted Christian Belief 1932- 2000

  • (This is weaker, of course, because it says, not that the antinomical premises are true, if we can think about the Dinge, but that they strongly seem true to us.)

    Warranted Christian Belief 1932- 2000

  • But the economists have erred no less gravely in rejecting a priori, and just because of the contradictory, or rather antinomical, nature of value, every idea and hope of reform, never desiring to understand that, for the very reason that society has arrived at its highest point of antagonism, reconciliation and harmony are at hand.

    System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery 1888

  • But, like communism and population, all these categories are antinomical; all are opposed, not only to each other, but to themselves.

    What is Property? 1837

  • - xxxvii - and population, all these categories are antinomical; all are opposed, not only to each other, but to themselves.

    What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government. 1890

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