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ANTINOMY (Greek ἀ ντ ί, antí, «against, in opposition to», and ν ό μος, nómos, «law») is a philosophical concept meaning a combination or collision of two opposing, mutually exclusive claims in terms of formal logic about the same subject matter, each of which is equidistant and recognized as true. The term is first found in the book of the late protestant neoscholastic representative Rudolf Goklenius «Philosophical Dictionary» (1613), in which the author for the first time for european philosophy gives a definition to the concepts of «ontology» and «antonomy».