Antinomy, in philosophy, contradiction, real or apparent, between two principles or conclusions, both of which seem equally justified; it is nearly synonymous with the term paradox.
There seems to be, therefore, a tension between two principles the modern hylomorphists seem to want to preserve.
The main fight between political parties over many decades has been between two principles: progressivity and avoidance of the distortions that higher tax rates create.
The mechanical inexplicability of organisms leads to an apparent conflict, which Kant refers to as an "antinomy of judgment," between two principles governing empirical scientific enquiry.
While Wolff endorses the full Vitruvian triad as imperatives, he emphasizes a linkage between two principles in particular: structural soundness must be tied to beauty, and visible to the spectator.
Notably, it was recently shown that flux data obtained from E. coli is consistent with a scenario where flux states evolve under the trade-off between two principles: near optimality under one given condition and minimal adjustment between conditions [ 28].
An ethical tension is thus created between two principles: promoting equity (giving everyone a chance to have access to transplantation), or maximizing efficacy (allocating organs to those recipients who would benefit the most).
There are well over a thousand domesticated Musa cultivars and their genetic diversity is high, indicating multiple origins from different wild hybrids between two principle ancestral species.
Given the imperative to contain healthcare costs, intensivists are frequently faced with tensions between these three principles and we typically have to compromise one in the service of another.
