Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Inclined to doubt or to raise objections.
  • noun A skeptic; one who believes that perfect certainty is unattainable, and finds in every object of thought insoluble difficulties.

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  • adjective Tending to doubt.

Etymologies

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From French aporétique, from Ancient Greek ἄπορητικός (aporetikos), from ἄπορος (aporos)

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Examples

  • President Barack Obama's recent announcement to drawdown troops in Afghanistan struck an aporetic chord in Pakistan due to fears the U.S. will offset this deescalation by intensifying its covert war across the border -- a strategy which features a CIA drone program designed to execute high-value extremist targets sanctuaried in Pakistan's borderlands.

    Michael Hughes: Obama's Drone Surge in Pakistan Doing More Damage Than Good Michael Hughes 2011

  • President Barack Obama's recent announcement to drawdown troops in Afghanistan struck an aporetic chord in Pakistan due to fears the U.S. will offset this deescalation by intensifying its covert war across the border -- a strategy which features a CIA drone program designed to execute high-value extremist targets sanctuaried in Pakistan's borderlands.

    Michael Hughes: Obama's Drone Surge in Pakistan Doing More Damage Than Good Michael Hughes 2011

  • In an interesting essay, "From Post to Neo and back: Habermas and Derrida" Raymond van de Wiel explores this debate and its aporetic convergence.

    Epoche vs. aletheia Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • Jack Reynolds deals with the aporetic ambiguities in Derrida's thought between the irredicible difference of the Other and the raidcal singularity of the Other...

    Love & Death in desert Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • Having made a fetish of innovation, they dwell in the aporetic interstices between language's performative and representational functions.

    The Aesthetics of Fat Hal Duncan 2007

  • Jack Reynolds deals with the aporetic ambiguities in Derrida's thought between the irredicible difference of the Other and the raidcal singularity of the Other...

    Archive 2009-07-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • In an interesting essay, "From Post to Neo and back: Habermas and Derrida" Raymond van de Wiel explores this debate and its aporetic convergence.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • I see Derrida's aporetic undecidability between the Other of difference and the Other of singluarity as the Vedantic tension between the Known, the Unknown and the Unknowable...

    Love & Death in desert Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

  • It is ordinarily used in a philosophic context: the Socratic stance is the aporetic stance, the assertion and demonstration that one does not meaningfully know what one thinks one knows; that one is, in fact, at a loss with regards to the thing that she thinks she knows, and so in the condition of aporia.

    Wherever You Go, There You Are | Her Bad Mother 2007

  • I see Derrida's aporetic undecidability between the Other of difference and the Other of singluarity as the Vedantic tension between the Known, the Unknown and the Unknowable...

    Archive 2009-07-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2009

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  • His excuses, profuse and poetic,

    To her ear still sounded cosmetic.

    If honest remorse

    Is noble of course,

    But his left her heart aporetic.

    June 17, 2015