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‖ aporia|əˈpɔərɪə, əˈpɒrɪə|
[L., a. Gr. ἀπορία, n. of state f. ἄπορ-ος: see aporetic.]
1. Rhet. See quots.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie (Arb.) 234 Aporia, or the Doubtfull. [So] called..because oftentimes we will seeme to cast perils, and make doubt of things when by a plaine manner of speech wee might affirme or deny him. 1657J. Smith Myst. Rhet. 150 Aporia is a figure whereby the Speaker sheweth that he doubteth, either where to begin for the multitude of matters, or what to do or say in some strange or ambiguous thing. 1751in Chambers; and in mod. Dicts. [E.g. Luke xvi. 3.]
2. A perplexing difficulty.
[1888Athenæum 18 Aug. 219/3 No quibble was too sophistical, no ἀπορία too transparent, for him to think it worth examination.] 1893W. Clarke Robinson tr. Ten Brink's Hist. Eng. Lit. II. 80 The solution of many an aporia, as attempted by the idealistic thinker. 1902Daily Chron. 12 Dec. 3/4 Mr. Kidd does not seem to us to surmount this aporia very successfully. |