aporia
noun
- a difficulty, as in a philosophical or literary text, caused by an indeterminacy of meaning for which no resolution seems possible
- a condition of uncertainty or skeptical doubt resulting from this
See aporia in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(ə-pôrˈē-ə, ə-pōrˈ-)
noun- A figure of speech in which the speaker expresses or purports to be in doubt about a question.
- An insoluble contradiction or paradox in a text's meanings.
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