Antinomy

Antinomy

Antinomy (Greek αντι-, for or instead of, plus νομος, law) literally means the mutual incompatibility, real or apparent, of two laws. It is a term used in logic and epistemology, particularly in the philosophy of Kant.

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    One man’s antinomy is another man’s falsidical paradox, give or take a couple of thousand years.
    Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)