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aporia
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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.]

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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She is modestly, but still bravely, critical of those who take a historical or developmental view of Plato, and who would see the two dialogues--the Laches negative or aporetic (ending with doubt rather than a conclusion) and the Republic more definite--as stages in Plato's career as he understood things better or differently.
In revisiting the traumatic past, Hemings's traversal might be read as a hopelessly aporetic affair, a failed affair and no traversal at all, as I have suggested, insofar as her traversal is bound to cognition of an injury that is socially illegible and legally nonexistent.
Derrida's aporetics is, in this instance, not aporetic enough.
 
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