aporia
- Noun. (rhetoric) An expression as if of an deliberation with oneself of uncertainty or doubt as to how to proceed.(examples-right, sense rhetoric) .
- Noun. (philosophy) An insoluble contradiction in a text's meaning.
- Noun. (philosophy) Any kind of logical impasse suggested by a text or speaker.
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