Sunday, April 27, 2008

Antimony and disambiguation

Sunday, April 27th, 2008
Antimony is an element (Sb): http://mineral.galleries.com/minerals/elements/antimony/antimony.htm
Antinomy is also “two or more parallel sets of logical arguments that lead to contradictory conclusions, taken by Kant (1724-1804) as evidence that there are questions that rational discussion cannot answer.” from Dictionary of Mathematics, J.A.Glenn and G.H.Littler (Harper&Row) (510.321).
When there are contradictory conclusions, that goes well beyond mere ambiguity.

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