Usually means: Contradiction between equally valid principles.
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  1. antinomy: Merriam-Webster
  2. antinomy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. antinomy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. antinomy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. antinomy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Antinomy, antinomy: Wordnik
  7. antinomy: Wiktionary
  8. antinomy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. antinomy: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Antinomy, antinomy: Dictionary.com
  11. Antinomy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Antinomy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. antinomy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. antinomy: Rhymezone
  15. Antinomy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. antinomy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. antinomy: FreeDictionary.org
  18. antinomy: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. antinomy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. antinomy: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. antinomy: Merriam-Webster

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  1. antinomy: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names

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  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. antinomy: Legal dictionary

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  1. antinomy: Encyclopedia

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  1. antinomy: Wordcraft Dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

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  1. Antinomy: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (antinomy)

noun:  (archaic) A contradiction within a law, or between different laws; also, a contradiction between authorities.
noun:  (by extension) Any contradiction or paradox.
noun:  (specifically, epistemology, logic) In the thought of the German philosopher Immanuel Kant (1724–1804): an apparent contradiction between valid conclusions; a paradox.

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