aporia

<logic, Aristotle, rational doubt, reasoning, conclusion>, Greek term for a difficulty or puzzle (literally, "with no pathway"). Aristotle commonly used this term to signify a group of individually plausible but collectively inconsistent statements. The reconciliation of such statements by considering alternative solutions, he supposed, is the chief business of philosophy.

[A Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names]

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