Associations to the word «Aporia»

Wiktionary

APORIA, noun. (rhetoric) An expression of deliberation with oneself regarding uncertainty or doubt as to how to proceed.
APORIA, noun. (philosophy) An insoluble contradiction in a text's meaning; a logical impasse suggested by a text or speaker.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope