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What is the noun for aporia?

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aporia
  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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  4. Examples:
    1. “Her claims of being simultaneously both completely altruistic and selfish in every aspect of life presented quite the aporia.”
      “The difference, however, between a paradox of terms and an aporia of terms lies in difference itself.”
      “Informants lost to historical representation by virtue of the aporia or oversights of historical conventions were not my primary concern.”
aporias
  1. plural of aporia
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  3. Examples:
    1. “We notice the linear progress in the way the language proceeds-how many aporias there are!”
      “Sublimity is a complex of undecidables and aporias of which Levi-narrator is only partially aware and which is often in an adversarial relation to his stated intentions.”
      “Demanding both material and mnemonic restitution by reclaiming sites of slavery, Robinson and Berry hope to fill in aporias in the African-American historical archive.”
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