Abstract

In this paper, I inquire into the concept of paranomy (hinted at by Georg Henrik von Wright and developed by Amedeo Giovanni Conte) by distinguishing four kinds of paranomy. The main question of the paper is: how can worldly situations determine an incompatibility between two norms that are not in an antinomic relation? What are the ways of normative incompatibility due to the "Sein"? In order to address these questions, I inquiry into four different ways in which the "Sein" can make the norms interact, determining incompatibilities between them. These four ways determine four kinds of paranomy.