The vocabulary of philosophy, mental, moral, and metaphysical : with quotations and references for the use of students / by William Fleming ; edited by Henry Calderwood.
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![ANTICIPATION- 11 ; and Leibnitz, Nouveaux Essais, Pref. See also Kemius, Dissert, in Epicuri -rfioAmhn/, &c., Goett., 1736; Bacon’s Nov. Org. Pref.; Thompson’s Laws of Thought.—[J. S. Mill on Expectation, Exam, of Hamilton’s Philo., ch. xi.] ANTINOMY (<*i>ri, against; vo>o?, law), the opposition of one law or rule to another law or rule. [In Kant’s philosophy, the conflict or self-contradiction (held by Kant to be inevit- able) which emerges when the Reason deals with problems concerning the universe. The conflict is complete, and the Reason is unable to settle the dispute.—Ed.] “ If he once willed adultery should be sinful, all his omnipotence will not allow Him to will the allowance that his holiest people might, as it were, by His own antinomy or counter statute, live unreproved in the same fact as He Himself esteemed it, according to our common explainers.” —Milton, Doct. and Disc, of Div., bk. ii. c. 3. Kant treats of the Antinomies in the Critique of Pure Reason (Kritik der Keinen Vemunft) under Transcendental Dialectic, bk. ii. ch. ii.; Meiklejohn's Translation, p. 266. The following are his antinomies in cosmology] :— Thesis. I. Antithesis. The world lias an origin in time, and The world has no beginning and is quoad space shut up in boundaries, no bounds. II. Every compound substance in the No composite consists of simple world consists of simple parts; and parts; andthere exists nowhat simple there is nothing but the simple, or in the world, that which is compounded from it. III. It is requisite to assume a Free There is no Freedom. Everything causality to explain the phenomena in the world happens according to of the world. the laws of nature. IV. To the world there belongs some- There exists no absolutely necas- what which, either as its part or its sary Being, neither in the world nor cause, is an absolutely necessary out of the world, as its cause, being. Semple, Introd. to Metaphysic of Ethics, p. 95, 8vo. ed., says, —At the bottom of the two first antinomies lies the absurdity](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2199531x_0041.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
