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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
Civilization and barbarism is a classic antinomy in Argentine history, going all the way back to America’s conquest and the subsequent extermination of the native population in military campaigns.
—Jd Linville, Variety, 2 Nov. 2021
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
Civilization and barbarism is a classic antinomy in Argentine history, going all the way back to America’s conquest and the subsequent extermination of the native population in military campaigns.
—Jd Linville, Variety, 2 Nov. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for antinomy
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Still, the family is on edge, unnerved by the nightly mystery.Alyce McFadden, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2024
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The art on view, in its day, was cutting-edge but infused with Gothic mystery, much as the best Christmases are about busy people, living in the present, gathering to reflect, reminisce, and hope for a miracle or two.Brian T. Allen, National Review, 7 Dec. 2024
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The question of whether to have a child was, for Paul, a sort of riddle that illuminated the limits of rationality.Alice Gregory, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
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The Hoosiers, who close with 1-10 Purdue next week, present one heck of a riddle for the committee.Stewart Mandel, The Athletic, 24 Nov. 2024
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Instead, the series prefers to regularly introduce additional enigmas into its central town that somehow keeps drawing in new residents despite being a nightmarish place that might be a parallel dimension, a pocket universe, purgatory, or even hell.Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 24 Nov. 2024
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For a while in the series, the motive remains an enigma, as does Marsh.Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
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Need help with today’s Connections: Sports Edition puzzle?Mark Cooper, The Athletic, 16 Dec. 2024
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The Crossword: Wednesday, December 4, 2024 A beginner-friendly puzzle.The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
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And that paradox could generate deep divisions within the new administration and among congressional Republicans.Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
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The paradox of our digital age is that as computers become smaller, the problems become bigger.David Szondy, New Atlas, 10 Dec. 2024
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“Antinomy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antinomy. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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