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What does aporetic mean?

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  1. Tending to doubt.
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The evidence of an aporetic conclusion in the theoretical account of freedom prepares the ground for the important distinction between theoretical and practical reasoning.
Any attentive reader of the dialogues must feel that Socrates has now given an answer to the questions that started many of the aporetic dialogues.
These dialogues, e.g., Charmides, Laches, Crito, Euthydemus, and Euthyphro, are called aporetic.
The significance of this distinction among dialogues is that one can isolate a strain of moral teaching in the aporetic and mixed dialogues.
Derrida attends to what is necessarily hidden and aporetic within a discourse, and emphasizes the secrets irreducible to public disclosure.
The access to citizenship, a necessary condition to have the same rights as the children of Italian parents, is made up of a long, torturous and often aporetic administrative procedure.

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