Aporia

In philosophy, an aporia (Ancient Greek: ᾰ̓πορῐ́ᾱ, romanized: aporíā, lit. 'literally: "lacking passage", also: "impasse", "difficulty in passage", "puzzlement"') is a conundrum or state of puzzlement. In rhetoric, it is a declaration of doubt, made for rhetorical purpose and often feigned.

For other uses, see Aporia (disambiguation).

Antinomy

Cognition

Dubitative mood

Figure of speech

Intuition

Rhetorical question

Thought experiment

Zeno's paradoxes

Gordian knot

"Aporia". The Oxford English Dictionary (2 ed.). 1989.

Harmon, William (2009). A Handbook to Literature. Upper Saddle River NJ: Pearson. 978-0-205-02401-8.

ISBN

Kofman, Sarah (1983). "Beyond Aporia?". In Benjamin, Andrew (ed.). Post-Structuralist Classics. London: Routledge. pp. 7–44.

(2006). "Aporia and Searching in the Early Plato" in L. Judson and V. Karasmanis eds. Remembering Socrates. Oxford University Press.

Vasilis Politis

Rescher, Nicholas (2009). Aporetics. Pittsburgh PA: University of Pittsburgh Press. 978-0-8229-6057-7.

ISBN

Smyth, Herbert Weir (1920). Greek Grammar. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press. p. 674. 0-674-36250-0.