aporia
English
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin aporia, from Ancient Greek ἀπορία (aporía), from ἄπορος (áporos, “impassable”), from ἀ- (a-, “a-”) + πόρος (póros, “passage”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /əˈpɔːɹɪə/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /əˈpɔɹiə/
Noun
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But, how can I describe the beauty of the desert? |
aporia (plural aporias)
- (rhetoric) An expression of deliberation with oneself regarding uncertainty or doubt as to how to proceed.
- 2012, Andy Martin, “Text Messenger”, in Literary Review, section 404:
- Meanings are superposed in an aporia – not ‘either/or’, but ‘and/and’.
- 2016, Ian McEwan, Nutshell, Vintage, page 9:
- 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.
- (philosophy, post-structuralism) An insoluble contradiction, especially in a text's meaning; a logical impasse suggested by a text or speaker.
- Synonyms: impasse, paradox, contradiction
- 2009, Mark Fisher, chapter 3, in Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?, Zero Books, →ISBN, page 19:
- 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.
- 2014 May 27, Alison Flood, quoting Eva Illouz, “Fifty Shades of Grey is really a self-help book, says academic”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
- EL James's multimillion selling series of novels ‘encodes the aporias of heterosexual relationships’, according to Professor Eva Illouz[.]
- 2018, David Auerbach, Bitwise: A Life in Code[2], Vintage, →ISBN:
- 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.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]expression of doubt
contradiction, logical impasse
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Internationalism (see English aporia), ultimately from Latin aporia.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]aporia
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of aporia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
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| nominative | aporia | aporiat | |
| genitive | aporian | aporioiden aporioitten | |
| partitive | aporiaa | aporioita | |
| illative | aporiaan | aporioihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | aporia | aporiat | |
| accusative | nom. | aporia | aporiat |
| gen. | aporian | ||
| genitive | aporian | aporioiden aporioitten aporiain rare | |
| partitive | aporiaa | aporioita | |
| inessive | aporiassa | aporioissa | |
| elative | aporiasta | aporioista | |
| illative | aporiaan | aporioihin | |
| adessive | aporialla | aporioilla | |
| ablative | aporialta | aporioilta | |
| allative | aporialle | aporioille | |
| essive | aporiana | aporioina | |
| translative | aporiaksi | aporioiksi | |
| abessive | aporiatta | aporioitta | |
| instructive | — | aporioin | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Galician
[edit]Verb
[edit]aporia
- (reintegrationist norm) first/third-person singular conditional of apor
Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Internationalism, learned borrowing from Latin aporia, from Ancient Greek ἀπορία (aporía).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]aporia (plural aporia-aporia)
Further reading
[edit]- “aporia” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek.
Noun
[edit]aporia f (plural aporie)
Anagrams
[edit]Polish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀπορία (aporía).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]aporia f
Declension
[edit]Declension of aporia
Derived terms
[edit]adjective
nouns
Further reading
[edit]- aporia in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
[edit]Verb
[edit]aporia
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