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Perplexity vs Aporesis - What's the difference?

perplexity | aporesis |

As nouns the difference between perplexity and aporesis

is that perplexity is the state or quality of being perplexed; puzzled or confused while aporesis is knowing perplexity, knowing the extent of one's wisdom.

perplexity

English

Noun

(perplexities)
  • The state or quality of being perplexed; puzzled or confused.
  • Something that perplexes.
  • * 1942 , Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006), page 149:
    • The Emperor, who was by then a focus of unresolvable perplexities , stood providing a strongly contrary appearance.
  • A measurement in information theory: see (Perplexity).

    • aporesis

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Knowing perplexity, knowing the extent of one's wisdom.

    • References

    * 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 Budhist 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."

    See also

    * aporia