antinomy

== English == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin antinomia, from Ancient Greek ἀντινομία (antinomía), from ἀντι- (anti-, prefix meaning ‘against’) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ent- (“face; forehead; front”)) + νόμος (nómos, “custom, usage; law, ordinance”) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns), with νόμος (nómos) derived from νέμω (némō, “to deal out, dispense, distribute”) (from Proto-Indo-European *nem- (“to distribute; to give; to take”)) + -ος (-os, suffix forming nouns indicating actions or their results). The English word may be analysed as anti- (prefix meaning ‘against; opposite of’) +‎ -nomy (suffix indicating a system of laws, rules, or knowledge about a body of a particular field). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: ăntĭn'əmē, IPA(key): /ænˈtɪn.ə.mi/ Hyphenation: an‧ti‧nomy === Noun === antinomy (countable and uncountable, plural antinomies) (archaic) A contradiction within a law, or between different laws; also, a contradiction between authorities. (by extension) Any contradiction or paradox. Synonym: (archaic, rare) antinome (specifically, epistemology, logic) In the thought of the German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724–1804): an apparent contradiction between valid conclusions; a paradox. ==== Usage notes ==== Not to be confused with antimony. As regards sense 2.1 (“apparent contradiction between valid conclusions”), Kant used antinomy in his work Critique of Pure Reason (1781) to speak of two valid conclusions that appeared to contradict each other, but that could be resolved when it was seen that they were from two distinct and exclusive sets. So no paradox exists, only that the inappropriate application of an idea from one set to another causes a seeming paradox. ==== Derived terms ==== antinomic antinomical antinomically Russell's antinomy ==== Related terms ==== antinome (archaic, rare) antinomian antinomianism antinomist (obsolete) antinomistic ==== Translations ==== === References === === Further reading === antinomy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Anagrams === antimony