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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.]


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But not unlike Nietzsche before them, these two pioneers of Russian Symbolism were haunted by the aporia of Decadence, unable to find the vehicle for their passage into the realm of divine myth.
Viacheslav Ivanov: culture and memory by Banerjee, Maria Nemcova / Modern Age
As annoying as it may sound to minds bred on the logic of the either/or (Aristotle lives on), the gift evidently appears to be an irresolvable paradox or aporia constituted by two irreducibly contradictory or heterogeneous (sets of) elements.
Derrida's gift to eco/theo/logy: a critical tribute by Manolopoulos, Mark / Cross Currents
His work thereby avoids hardening into the lapidary forms of static orthodoxies, theoretical dogmas, and provincial forms of professionalism, and thus poses a great difficulty if not an outright aporia for those who endeavor to synthesize his massive oeuvre into an identifiable method or model.
Edward W. Said (1935-2003) by Rubin, Andrew N. / Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ)
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