Aporia

Under aporia ( ancient Greek ἡ ἀπορία he Aporia " perplexity ", actually " hopelessness ", " Weglosigkeit " of ὁ πόρος ho pόros "the way" with alpha privative: oν ἄπόρος on apόros " with no way of being ", " hopeless " ) understands you, because you get a date in the case or in the disputed terms problem or difficulty occurring at different opposite and conflicting results.

Conceptual history

In Socrates' aporia is an indissoluble theoretical problem, which allows the paradoxical realization of one's own ignorance: Socrates leads his interlocutors while using the Maieutics in the aporia, to guide them as to the search for truth (Greek αλήθεια ). In particular, the early Platonic dialogues as evidence of this philosophical strategy end all aporetic.

In Aristotle, an aporia is a continuous task to which is at the beginning of an investigation and the result of compelling in the same way arguments with conflicting conclusions is. For Aristotle 's aporetic as the art of thinking through difficult or intractable problems to be solved, and to discuss their own research method.

Found in scholasticism, the aporetic method as Quaestio method input in the scholastic philosophy of the Middle Ages.

Aporia is seen in the love songs as incompatibility, such as the incompatibility between minne and ERE, as postulated Reinmar in his songs.

In the rhetoric of the aporia is a rhetorical figure, which illustrates the uncertainty of a statement by the speaker.

Aporetic structure and function has in the broader sense, the koan in Zen Buddhist meditation.