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Ataraxia vs Aporia - What's the difference?

ataraxia | aporia |

As a noun ataraxia

is ataraxy.

As a verb aporia is

.

ataraxia

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (literary, Greek philosophy) A pleasure that comes when the mind is at rest.

    • Synonyms

    * complacency * peace of mind

    See also

    * ataraxy ----

    aporia

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rhetoric) An expression of deliberation with oneself regarding uncertainty or doubt as to how to proceed.
  • * 2012 , , ‘Text Messenger’, Literary Review 404:
    • Meanings are superposed in an aporia – not ‘either/or’, but ‘and/and’.
  • (philosophy) An insoluble contradiction in a text's meaning; a logical impasse suggested by a text or speaker.

    • Synonyms

    * impasse, paradox, contradiction

    External links

    * (Aporia) ----