plural antinomies
Definition of antinomy
1
: a contradiction between two apparently equally valid principles or between inferences correctly drawn from such principles
2
: a fundamental and apparently unresolvable conflict or contradiction
antinomies of beauty and evil, freedom and slavery— Stephen Holden
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The first known use of antinomy was in 1592
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