Word of the Day for Tuesday, July 5, 2011
aporia \uh-PAWR-ee-uh\, noun:
1. Difficulty determining the truth of an idea due to equally valid arguments for and against it.
2. In rhetoric, the expression of a simulated or real doubt, as about where to begin or what to do or say.
The B.O. suffers from a terminal case of both brain cloud and aporia!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
Yet he has his moments when he manages to confound our feelings and induce a moral uncertainty, something like the ironic aporia with which Socrates leaves the Sophists at the end of a Platonic dialogue.-- John Simon, "Talk to the Animals: A review of the play 'Sylvia,'" New York Magazine Jun 5, 1995
Writing from a position of love means allowing others to see and point out the aporia in one's writing, what perhaps has been missed, overlooked or hidden (there is relief here, a lessening of the burden).-- Claudia Eppert, "A Lover's Discourse," Taboo, Spring-Summer 2001
Aporia derives from the Greek roots aporos, "impassable," and -ia, "the state or condition."
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