Concept
Antinomy
Overview
real or apparent mutual incompatibility of two laws
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In the case of the apparent antinomy with which we are at present dealing, there exists a way of escape from the difficulty; for it is not impossible that both of the contradictory statements may be true in different relations. All sensuous phenomena may be contingent, and consequently possess only an empirically conditioned existence, and yet there may also exist a non-empirical condition of the whole series, or…
Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Pure Reason
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In the second antinomy we have a discussion of the dilemma: Matter must be conceived either as endlessly divisible, or as consisting of atoms. The third antinomy bears upon the antithesis of freedom and necessity, to such extent as it is embraced in the question, Whether everything in the world must be supposed subject to the condition of causality, or if we can also assume free beings, in other words, absolute…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Logic of Hegel
Names Antinomy several times; states what Antinomy is.
As to the fourth Antinomy, it is solved in the same way as the conflict of reason with itself in the third. For, provided the cause in the appearance is distinguished from the cause of the appearance (so far as it can be thought as a thing in itself), both propositions are perfectly reconcilable: the one, that there is…
Immanuel Kant, Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
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Philosophers who discussed Antinomy
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- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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- Zeno of Elea
- Immanuel Kant
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- Karl Marx
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling
- Social conflict
- Reductio ad absurdum
- Plato
- Paradox
- Science
- Space
- Exegesis
- Experience
- Time
- Empirical evidence
- Zeno's paradoxes
- Critique of Pure Reason
- Causality
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