aporesis

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀπόρησις (apórēsis) synonym of ἀπορία (aporía) and of the same root.

Noun

aporesis (uncountable)

1. Knowing perplexity, knowing the extent of one's wisdom.

See also

• aporia

References

• Book review of Adventures in the Aporetic; Anthropological Alterities, by Lowern G.V., University Press of America: 2005: "the process of perplexity in the face of disjunctive similitudes"
• How Buddhist was Plato, by Robert Ellis: "The Non-Dualist Elements in Socrates' thought center around his claim to be wise only in the sense that he knows the extent of his own ignorance, a claim known as the aporesis."