单词 | antinomy |
释义 | antinomyn. 1. a. A contradiction in a law, or between two equally binding laws. ΘΚΠ society > law > [noun] > a law > specific quality of antinomy1592 personality1834 1592 J. Dee in Chetham Misc. I. 7 In antinomys, imagined to be in the law, I had good hap to finde out their agreementes. 1659 H. L'Estrange Alliance Divine Offices 239 An antinomy, a justle between the Canon laws of our Church and the law of the land. 1781 Gibbon Decline & Fall xliv, The antinomies or contradictions of the Code and Pandects. 1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) ii. 220 We have here a case of Antinomy (contradictory laws) in Justinian's legislation. b. A conflict of authority. ΘΚΠ society > authority > [noun] > conflict of authority antinomy1842 1842 T. De Quincey Cicero in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 18/2 The capital fault in the operative constitution of Rome, had long been in the antinomies, if we may be pardoned for so learned a term, of the public service. ΘΚΠ society > law > [noun] > a law > other general types of law judicialc1400 proper law1609 antinomy1644 cobweb law1649 post-law1663 overlaw1883 inn law1930 loi-cadre1953 1644 Milton Doctr. Divorce (ed. 2) 39 That his holiest people might as it were by his own Antinomie, or counter-statute live unreprov'd. 1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar Add. iv. 48 The signes which the Angel gave..are direct antinomies to the lusts of the flesh. 1656 Bp. J. Taylor Deus Justificatus An Antidote, and Antinomy of their great objection. 3. A contradiction between conclusions which seem equally logical, reasonable, or necessary; a paradox; intellectual contradictoriness. (After Kant.) ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > contrariety or contrast > [noun] > paradoxicality or self-contradiction > paradox or dichotomy paradox1570 contra-indicant1796 antinomy1802 antinome1864 dichotomy1903 1802 H. C. Robinson Diary I. 144 The antinomies of pure reason. 1857 T. E. Webb Intellectualism of Locke ix. 175 The imagination was distracted on every side by counter inconceivabilities, the Mind was divided against itself; Antinomy was its very law. 1877 E. Caird Crit. Acct. Philos. Kant ii. xvi. 566 Criticism must discover the nature and extent of the antinomies of reason, and must show that they are dogmatically insoluble; or that, whichever of the alternative solutions we adopt, we are led into absurdity and contradiction. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online November 2010). < n.1592 |
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