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ANTINOMY (Gr. avri, against, v6uos, law)

This article appears in Volume V02, Page 130 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ANC-APO
ANTINOMY (Gr. avri, against, v6uos, law) , literally, the mutual incompatibility, real or apparent, of two
laws
 . The
term
  acquired a
special
  significance in the philosophy of Kant, who used it to describe the contradictory results of applying to the universe of pure thought the categories or criteria proper to the universe of sensible perception (phenomena). These antinomies are fourtwo mathematical, two dynamicalconnected with (i) the limitation of the universe in respect of space and time, (2) the theory that the whole consists of indivisible atoms (whereas, in fact, none such exist), (3) the problem-of freedom in relation to universal causality, (4) the existence of a universal beingabout each of which pure reason contradicts the empirical, as thesis and
antithesis
 . Kant claimed to solve these contradictions by saying, that in no case is the contradiction real, however really it has been intended by the opposing partisans, or must appear to the mind without
critical
  enlightenment. It is wrong, therefore, to impute to Kant, as is often done, the view that human reason is, on ultimate subjects, at war with itself, in the sense of being impelled by equally strong arguments towards alternatives contradictory of each other. The difficulty arises from a confusion between the
spheres
  of phenomena and noumena. In fact no rational cosmology is possible.
See John
Watson
 , Selections from Kant (trans. Glasgow, 1897), pp. 155 foil.; W. Windelband, History of Philosophy, (Eng. trans. 1893) ; H. Sidgwick, Philos. of Kant, lectures x. and xi. (Lond., 1905) ; F. Paulsen, I. Kant (Eng. trans. 1902), pp. 216 foll.


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