Monday, December 14, 2009

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...................Important aporia, aporetic.

a·po·ri·a (-pôr-, -pr-)
n.
1. A figure of speech in which the speaker expresses or purports to be in doubt about a question.
2. An insoluble contradiction or paradox in a text's meanings.
[Greek, difficulty of passing, from aporos, impassable : a-, without; see a-1 + poros, passage; see per-2 in Indo-European roots.]

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aporia [əˈpɔːrɪə]
n
1. (Literature / Rhetoric) Rhetoric a doubt, real or professed, about what to do or say
2. (Philosophy) Philosophy puzzlement occasioned by the raising of philosophical objections without any proffered solutions, esp in the works of Socrates
[from Greek, literally: a state of being at a loss]
aporetic [ˌæpəˈrɛtɪk] adj

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