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Philosophical concept

Aporia

Aporia is rational perplexity in which several paths fail and inquiry must restart on better grounds.

Works
193
Passages
1,896
Thinkers
44
Traditions
15

Understand uses of the concept

Aporia is rational perplexity in which several paths fail and inquiry must restart on better grounds.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 1,896 passages across 193 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored Documents, Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Testimonies and Fragments of Aristo of Chios. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: aporie, aporia, perplex, embarras, ἀπορ

Related traditions

Works where the concept is identified

  1. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored DocumentsAbraham Lincoln · 0 passages
  2. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record · 0 passages
  3. Testimonies and Fragments of Aristo of ChiosAristo of Chios · 0 passages
  4. Eudemian EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  5. MetaphysicsAristotle · 0 passages
  6. Nicomachean EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  7. PoeticsAristotle · 0 passages
  8. PoliticsAristotle · 0 passages
  9. RhetoricAristotle · 0 passages
  10. Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  11. Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  12. Saṃyutta Nikāya: Connected DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  13. Sutta Nipāta: Early Collection of Discourses in VerseSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  14. Ancient testimonia on CarneadesCarneades · 0 passages
  15. SVF II: Chrysippus on Logic and PhysicsChrysippus · 0 passages
  16. AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  17. Brutus, or On Eminent OratorsCicero · 0 passages
  18. Catilinarian OrationsCicero · 0 passages
  19. Letters to AtticusCicero · 0 passages
  20. Letters to FriendsCicero · 0 passages
  21. Letters to QuintusCicero · 0 passages
  22. On DivinationCicero · 0 passages
  23. On DutiesCicero · 0 passages
  24. On EndsCicero · 0 passages
  25. On FateCicero · 0 passages
  26. On the Nature of the GodsCicero · 0 passages
  27. PhilippicsCicero · 0 passages
  28. Tusculan DisputationsCicero · 0 passages
  29. SVF I: CleanthesCleanthes · 0 passages
  30. Pearson: Cleanthes fragmentsCleanthes · 0 passages