MEANING & PRONUNCIATION

die Aporie

aporia (a difficulty in reasoning that seems to offer no way forward)

IN CONTEXT

Unser Lesekreis geriet in eine Aporie: Um gerecht zu entscheiden, brauchten wir Regeln, die selbst erst einer Begründung von Gerechtigkeit bedurften.

Our reading group reached a logical impasse: to decide fairly, we needed rules, but justifying those rules first required an account of what makes something just.

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