aporia

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But his ineptitude in not changing the wording of the bordering text left a "literary seam" (what rhetoricians might term aporia) that sticks out like a pimpled nose.

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  1. noun A figure of speech in which the speaker expresses or purports to be in doubt about a question.
  2. noun An insoluble contradiction or paradox in a text's meanings.

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  • Chapter 5 presents a nice deconstructive analysis of an aporia within commodity circulation —  Roughtheory.org
  • This is as one would say the aporia with every democracy. —  NAACHGAANA
  • From 'aporia' to 'yes', the Dictionary suggests ways into Derrida that show what is at stake in his work. —  AvaxHome RSS:
  • Slide 17: Manager's perceptions of ethical issues - a framework x Developing principles Ethical puzzle Ethical problem Achieving the common good Ethical convention Ethical dilemma Dialectic of ethical purpose The obligation Ethical cynicism and of duty Ethical awareness caprice Self - consciousness Ethical neutrality Ethical negotiation Personal certainty, fixed Personal aporia, shifting priorities and values priorities and values Degree of ethical integrity Source: Fisher and Rice (1999) Management responsable: questions éthiques - Laurent Ledoux - 14 / 04 / 07 17 —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Choosing not to study a successor system to capitalism is an example of another kind of denial, an ostrich failure on the part of the field of economics and of business schools, I think, but it's really all of us together, a social aporia or fear. —  Ethical Technology
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  1. Greek, difficulty of passing, from aporos, impassable : a-, without; see a-1 + poros, passage; see per-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Late Latin, from Greek ἀπορία, difficulty, doubt, puzzle, from ἀπορος, in doubt, doubtful, at a loss, literally impassable, without passage, from à- privative + πόρος, way, passage: see pore.
 

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