Truth is an Antinomy

Creation is born and dies, but truth is immortal, it is above arguments and contradiction. It must be fulfilled only under the condition that “we follow universality, antiquity, and consensus”. But how is it possible to construct the unconditional formula of Divine Truth from the conditional material of the human mind?  If knowledge is given in the form of certain judgments, i.e. as the synthesis of S and P, or of another S and another P, or even of S with not-P, then it follows that every judgment is contradictory, it can encounter an objection to itself. Life is infinitely fuller than rational definitions and therefore no formula can encompass all the fullness of life. No one formula can replace life itself in its creativity. A rational formula can be above the attacks of life if and only if it gathers all of life into itself, with all of life's diversity with all of its present and future contradictions. Hence, it follows that truth is a self-contradictory judgment. The thesis and antithesis together form the expression of truth. In other words, truth is an antinomy and it cannot fail to be such. 

When we look at one and the same thing from different points of view, when we separate in different modes of spiritual activity, we can arrive at antinomies or propositions that are incompatible in our rational mind. These are only eliminated at certain moments of illumination, not rationally but supra-rationally. Antinomicalness does not say, either the one or the other is not true, and neither does it say, neither the one nor the other is true, but it only says, both the one and the other are true, but each in its own way; reconciliation and unity are higher than rationality. 

Pavel A. Florenskij (1882-1937)

The Pillar and Ground of Truth, Letter VI