Crossword-Solution: APORIA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Aporia | n. | A figure in which the speaker professes to be at a loss what course to pursue, where to begin to end, what to say, etc. |
We have 1 clue for the answer “APORIA”
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| Figure of speech, denoting doubt. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERETA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with APORIA (5)
This derivation is illustrated by the word deilia, which ought to have come after andreia, and may be regarded as o lian desmos tes psuches, just as aporia signifies an impediment to motion (from alpha not, and poreuesthai to go), and arete is euporia, which is the opposite of this—the everflowing (aei reousa or aeireite), or the eligible, quasi airete.
Deilia signifies that the soul is bound with a strong chain (desmos), for lian means strength, and therefore deilia expresses the greatest and strongest bond of the soul; and aporia (difficulty) is an evil of the same nature (from a (alpha) not, and poreuesthai to go), like anything else which is an impediment to motion and movement.
When one thinks of this [Greek: aporia] and [Greek: erÍmia], one fancies oneself far out on the Atlantic, alone in an open boat on a cloudy night, bewildered and hopeless.] [Sidenote: Toscanelli's calculation of the size of the earth,] [Sidenote: and of the position of Cipango.] Ptolemy's opinion as to the length of the Inhabited World was considerably modified in the minds of those writers who toward the end of the Middle Ages had been strongly impressed by the book of Marco Polo.
The problem was to contrive how plenty ([Greek: euporia], not poverty, [Greek: aporia]) should become permanent.
The section on Rhetoric is also short, and turns almost wholly upon the old _aporia_ whether Rhetoric is an art or not, with others of a similar kind.
Quotes with APORIA (2)
In The Inhuman... Lyotard, like Weber, reminds us of the distinction between technological development and 'human' progress. He argues, in particular, that the development of technology, or 'techno-science', is driven by the quest for maximum efficiency and performance, and as such leads to the emergence of new 'inhuman' (technological) forms of control rather than to the emancipation of 'humanity'. Lyotard reasserts the instrumental nature of the modern system, arguing that …
Quite often we are led to aporia, an impasse, unable to proceed a step further. Socrates is almost always there, but even he is only a supporting character. The starring role is given to the philosophical question. It is the philosophical question that is supposed to take center stage, cracking us open to an entirely new variety of experience.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1944).