aporia
noun/əˈpɔːriə/
/əˈpɔːriə/
(specialist)- a situation in which two or more parts of a theory or argument do not agree, meaning that the theory or argument cannot be trueTopics Opinion and argumentc2Word Originmid 16th cent.: via late Latin from Greek, from aporos ‘impassable’, from a- ‘without’ + poros ‘passage’.
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