antinomies
Meaning
of Antinomy
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Examples
Edgeworth's romances of real life operate in the same discursive field but do not attempt to traverse between self-denied antinomies.
These are the well-known antinomies of the set of all sets that do not contain themselves (Russell), of the set of all transfinte ordinal numbers (Burali-Forti), and the set of all finitely definable real numbers (Richard)."
Kant's goal in his critical philosophy was to identify what claims we are and are not justified in making, and the antinomies are a particularly illustrative example of his larger project.
Oxford Companion p. 499 It culminates with the Principia, an important work which includes a thorough examination and attempted solution of the antinomies which had been an obstacle to earlier progress.
That we blindly converted one into the other is the true source of our difficulties, including the antinomies a source of more fundamental nature than Russell's vicious circle principle indicated.