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Recent Examples of antinomy
The antinomy produces statements that can be neither false nor true.
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Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2024
This rules out antinomies such as the barber paradox.
—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2024
Unlike Hilbert’s hotel and the birthday paradox, Russell’s antinomy is not a result that merely eludes our intuition.
—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2024
The antinomies of male and female, and the product of their union, seem very much on his mind during this period.
—Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
The most recent developments in the Russian-Ukrainian war call forth similar antinomies.
—Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 15 June 2023
The great Russian sociologist Yuri Levada theorized that antinomies—pairs of mutually exclusive beliefs—were key to understanding the Soviet totalitarian mentality.
—Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 15 June 2023
By obliterating Twitter’s attempts at resolving the irreconcilable antinomy between good and bad virality, Musk has only ensured that the Chinese government can engage in viral spam to defeat viral attempts at amplifying domestic protests of CCP’s zero-Covid biosecurity regime.
—WIRED, 1 Dec. 2022
Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2024
This rules out antinomies such as the barber paradox.
—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2024
Unlike Hilbert’s hotel and the birthday paradox, Russell’s antinomy is not a result that merely eludes our intuition.
—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2024
The antinomies of male and female, and the product of their union, seem very much on his mind during this period.
—Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
The most recent developments in the Russian-Ukrainian war call forth similar antinomies.
—Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 15 June 2023
The great Russian sociologist Yuri Levada theorized that antinomies—pairs of mutually exclusive beliefs—were key to understanding the Soviet totalitarian mentality.
—Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 15 June 2023
By obliterating Twitter’s attempts at resolving the irreconcilable antinomy between good and bad virality, Musk has only ensured that the Chinese government can engage in viral spam to defeat viral attempts at amplifying domestic protests of CCP’s zero-Covid biosecurity regime.
—WIRED, 1 Dec. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for antinomy
Noun
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Set against the atmospheric backdrop of 19th-century Vietnam during the Nguyễn Dynasty, the film centers on a terrifying mystery after the discovery of a headless corpse sends shockwaves through a rural village.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
31 Mar. 2025
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Cosmic rays may offer an out-of-this-world answer to a long-standing mystery about lightning on Earth, a new study suggests.—
Tereza Pultarova,
Space.com,
31 Mar. 2025
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Expect to wrestle with the grim power of propaganda and the dangerous riddle of just what is real, in what is surely a work of fantastic escapism … right?—
Colin Dwyer,
NPR,
18 Mar. 2025
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The final mission required the contestants to answer riddles to find the location of bags of gold in the woods.—
Dana Rose Falcone,
People.com,
7 Mar. 2025
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Supernal landscapes and the gigantic, palatial mother ship — with its combination of colonial, gothic, and neoclassical architecture — take viewers low and high, from the spiritual enigmas of Humanité to its carnal reality.—
Armond White,
National Review,
14 Mar. 2025
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The film, based on a true story that became a media sensation in the '80s, never renders definitive judgment on von Bülow (who was acquitted in court), leaving him an indelible enigma that Irons teases but never tells.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
2 Mar. 2025
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While there is a great deal of simulcasting, the use of technology is more rooted here in pre-recorded material, helping solve the logistical puzzle of having Snook play all the roles.—
Christian Lewis,
Variety,
28 Mar. 2025
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The next puzzle will be available at midnight in your time zone.—
Mark Cooper,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2025
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His mounting anxiety, however, reflects a more personal, immediate paradox.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
23 Mar. 2025
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The corporate world operates on a paradox: the more successful an organization becomes, the more its leaders and employees seem to suffer.—
William Jones,
USA TODAY,
21 Mar. 2025
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“Antinomy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antinomy. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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