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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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In life and his own documentary, Preston remains a beaming mystery.David Browne, Rolling Stone, 22 Nov. 2024
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The exact cause of the large freighter’s demise during the storm remains a mystery.The Arizona Republic, The Arizona Republic, 22 Nov. 2024
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Outside of the tech industry, employees have been trying to help their peers outsmart the interview process by sharing thorny questions on the likes of Glassdoor: Fortune was able to find many of the quirky riddles Goldman Sachs asks its candidates on the careers platform.Alena Botros, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2024
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Fans will be tasked with solving puzzles and riddles in an escape room based on the businessman’s life.Marc Griffin, VIBE.com, 15 Oct. 2024
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Margherita was very good at being present but always an enigma.Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2024
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The Philadelphia enigma has been one of the biggest stars in rap over the last near decade, but there has been a decline in sales and music quality.Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 1 Nov. 2024
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This puzzle is from a separate experiment and the design differs from the puzzle used in a PLOS Biology paper published November 14, 2024.Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 14 Nov. 2024
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For those not familiar with the video game or the Angelina Jolie movie or the Alicia Vikander movie or the Netflix anime series, Croft is a British archaeologist who raids tombs — the video game had players solving puzzles and fighting bad guys while wearing tiny outfits.Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2024
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That was the fundamental paradox of Martha Stewart.Constance Grady, Vox, 4 Nov. 2024
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Yet for many, there appears to be a paradox looming, based on the projection that because frontier AI models are so computationally intensive to train and use, their proliferation could lead to a scarcity of computing power.Nathan Warren, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2024
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“Antinomy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antinomy. Accessed 29 Nov. 2024.
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