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Definition of "antinomy"

From The Random House College Dictionary.

antinomy

1. oppostion between one law, principle, rule, etc., and another. 2. Philos. a contradiction between two statements, both apparently obtained by correct reasoning.

From the Oxford English Dictionary.

antinomy [ad. L. antinomia, a. Gr. vtivou a, f. vt against + v uos law: cf. Fr. antinomie (16th c.).]

1 A contradiction in a law, or between two equally binding laws. 1592 DEE in Chetham Misc. I. 7 In antinomys, imagined to be in the law, I had good hap to finde out their agreementes. 1659 LESTRANGE Alliance of Div. Off. 239 An antinomy, a justle between the Canon laws of our Church and the law of the land. 1781 GIBBON Decl. & F. xliv, The antinomies or contradictions of the Code and Pandects. 1875 POSTE Gaius II. 220 We have here a case of Antinomy (contradictory laws) in Justinian's legislation.
b A conflict of authority. 1842 DE QUINCEY Cicero Wks. VI. 224 The capital fault in the operative constitution of Rome had long been in the antinomies, if I may be pardoned for so learned a term, of the public service.
2 A contradictory law, statute, or principle; an authoritative contradiction. Obs. 1643 MILTON Divorce II. iii. (1847) 139/2 That his holiest people might as it were by his own antinomy, or counter-statute, live unreproved. 1649 JER. TAYLOR Gt. Exemp. Add. iv. 48 The signes which the Angel gave..are direct antinomies to the lusts of the flesh. 1656 JER. TAYLOR Deus Justif., 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.) 1802 H. C. ROBINSON Diary I. 144 The antinomies of pure reason. 1857 T. WEBB Intell. 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 CAIRD 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.