a Poriaとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /əˈpɔːɹɪə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈpɔɹiə/

名詞

aporia (複数形 aporias)

1. (rhetoric) An expression of deliberation with oneself regarding uncertainty or doubt as to how to proceed.
   • [1835, L[arret] Langley, A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster: Printed by C. White, Baxter-Gate, →OCLC, page 55:

     Aporia oft in doubt and fear will rest,
     And reason with itself what may be best.]

   • 2012, Andy Martin, ‘Text Messenger’, Literary Review 404:

     Meanings are superposed in an aporia – not ‘either/or’, but ‘and/and’.

   • 2016, Ian McEwan, Nutshell, Vintage, page 9:

     What they intend sickens and frightens them, and they can never speak of it directly. Instead, wrapped in whispers are ellipses, euphemisms, mumbled aporia followed by throat-clearing and a brisk change of subject.

2. (philosophy, post-structuralism) An insoluble contradiction, especially in a text's meaning; a logical impasse suggested by a text or speaker.

   Synonyms: impasse, paradox, contradiction

   • 2009, Mark Fisher, chapter 3, in Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?, Zero Books, →ISBN, page 19:

     But Green issues are already a contested zone, already a site where politicization is being fought for. In what follows, I want to stress two other aporias in capitalist realism, which are not yet politicized to anything like the same degree. The first is mental health.

   • 2014 May 27, Alison Flood, quoting Eva Illouz, “Fifty Shades of Grey is really a self-help book, says academic”, in The Guardian‎^[1], →ISSN:

     EL James's multimillion selling series of novels ‘encodes the aporias of heterosexual relationships’, according to Professor Eva Illouz[.]

   • 2018, David Auerbach, Bitwise: A Life in Code‎^[2], Vintage, →ISBN:

     Plato believed that the core impulse to philosophizing lies in aporia, the point at which, in struggling to understand a phenomenon or answer a question, we come up against a seemingly irresolvable contradiction.

Further reading

• Aporia on Wikipedia.