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What is an aporia?

What is an aporia? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (rhetoric) An expression of deliberation with oneself regarding uncertainty or doubt as to how to proceed.
  2. (philosophy) An insoluble contradiction in a text's meaning; a logical impasse suggested by a text or speaker.
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The difference, however, between a paradox of terms and an aporia of terms lies in difference itself.
This essay attempts to make the reader recognize that human rights is such an interested crossing, a containment of the aporia in binary oppositions.
Informants lost to historical representation by virtue of the aporia or oversights of historical conventions were not my primary concern.
Through the ruse of a technique, Baraka names the nameless, which creates an aporia that interrupts the functioning of the proper name.
As happens with Dante's pilgrim, the protagonist of a descent narrative traditionally responds to aporia by imploding, by driving downward and into the self.
Repeating this deconstructive gesture, Boucher concludes his video with an aporia that serves as a goad to further ethico-political vigilance.

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