George Szpiro

It's a statement.

that seems absurd and the reasoning is correct, but there's something wrong with it that it just cannot be.

Usually it's when two equally valid principles contradict each other.

Let's say you have the right to privacy,

And you also have freedom of speech.

And these two contradict each other.

So you have an antinomy.

It's not the paradox as such, but there are two things, two equally valid precepts, which contradict each other, the right to privacy, freedom of speech, or let's say,

A medical doctor stands in front of a patient who is dying.

Now, the Ten Commandments, one of the commandments says, thou shalt not lie.

You must not lie.

The Hippocratic Oath says, do no harm.

Now, the doctor...

has a problem, let's call it a paradox, an antinomy.

He should tell the truth, but he knows if he tells the truth, he will hurt the patient.

So what does he do?

I can't answer it.

It's an antinomy.

They're equally valid principles which contradict each other.

So you can't really answer that question.