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Definition of Aporias
1. aporia [n] - See also: aporia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aporias
Literary usage of Aporias
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of the History of Philosophy by Albert Schwegler (1868)
"Kant would honestly investigate and tabulate the source, nature, and extent of
all those aporias, ..."
2. The Works of James Arminius, D. D., Formerly Professor of Divinity in the by Jacobus Arminius (1853)
"... an acrimonious shrewdness of judgment; because they embrace neither the whole
nor the chief [aporias] of the perplexing difficulties of James Arminius. ..."
3. Ordinary Mysteries: The Common Journal of Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nicholas R. Lawrence, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, Marta L. Werner (2005)
"32 For Sophia, ellipses point to aporias in the text that are themselves figures
for her understanding of the soul, an understanding that, as Terry Eagleton ..."
4. The Entomologist; an Illustrated Journal of General Entomology by Edward Newman, Royal Entomological Society of London (1894)
"... might be applied to those aporias in which the hind wing below is yellow or
yellowish, with the veins more or ..."
5. Conceptions of Social Inquiry by J. J. Snyman (1993)
"... problems and aporias of social existence. In this they are analogous to texts
which have a non-ostensive reference, which opens up a variety of ..."
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