aporesis
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aporesis (uncountable)
- Knowing perplexity, knowing the extent of one's wisdom.
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- Book review of Adventures in the Aporetic; Anthropological Alterities, by Lowern G.V., University Press of America: 2005: "the process of perplexity in the face of disjunctive similitudes"
- How Buddhist was Plato, by Robert Ellis: "The Non-Dualist Elements in Socrates' thought center around his claim to be wise only in the sense that he knows the extent of his own ignorance, a claim known as the aporesis."