Meaning of aporia | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An expression of deliberation with oneself regarding uncertainty or doubt as to how to proceed.
   rhetoric
2. An insoluble contradiction, especially in a text's meaning; a logical impasse suggested by a text or speaker.

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Examples

“Aporia oft in doubt⟳ and fear will rest⟳, And reason⟳ with itself what may be best.”

“Meanings are superposed in an aporia – not ‘either/or’, but ‘and/and’.”

“What they intend⟳ sickens and frightens them, and they can never speak⟳ of it directly. Instead, wrapped in whispers are ellipses, euphemisms, mumbled aporia followed by throat-clearing and a brisk change⟳ of subject.”

“But Green issues are already a contested zone, already a site where politicization is being fought for. In what follows, I want⟳ to stress⟳ two other aporias in capitalist realism, which are not yet politicized to anything like⟳ the same degree. The first is mental health.”

“EL James's multimillion selling series of novels ‘encodes the aporias of heterosexual relationships’, according to Professor Eva Illouz[.]”

“Plato believed that the core impulse to philosophizing lies in aporia, the point⟳ at which, in struggling to understand⟳ a phenomenon or answer⟳ a question⟳, we come⟳ up against a seemingly irresolvable contradiction.”

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