Aporia oft in doubt and fear will rest, And reason with itself what may be best.
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Aporia
//əˈpɔɹiə//
Synonyms for "aporia" (9 found)
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16 translations across 11 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- aporia noun (contradiction, logical impasse)
Dutch
2 entries- onzekerheid noun (expression of doubt)
- twijfel noun (expression of doubt)
Finnish
3 entries- aporia noun (expression of doubt)
- aporia noun (contradiction, logical impasse)
- ristiriita noun (contradiction, logical impasse)
German
1 entries- Aporie noun (contradiction, logical impasse)
Greek
1 entries- απορία noun (expression of doubt)
Hebrew
1 entries- אפוריה noun (contradiction, logical impasse)
Indonesian
1 entries- aporia noun (expression of doubt)
Polish
2 entries- aporia noun (expression of doubt)
- aporia noun (contradiction, logical impasse)
Portuguese
2 entries- aporia noun (expression of doubt)
- aporia noun (contradiction, logical impasse)
Russian
1 entries- апори́я noun (contradiction, logical impasse)
Spanish
1 entries- aporía noun (contradiction, logical impasse)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
Meanings are superposed in an aporia – not ‘either/or’, but ‘and/and’.
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What they intend sickens and frightens them, and they can never speak of it directly. Instead, wrapped in whispers are ellipses, euphemisms, mumbled aporia followed by throat-clearing and a brisk change of subject.
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But Green issues are already a contested zone, already a site where politicization is being fought for. In what follows, I want to stress two other aporias in capitalist realism, which are not yet politicized to anything like the same degree. The first is mental health.
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