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Taxonomy vs Aporia - What's the difference?

taxonomy | aporia |

As a noun taxonomy

is the science or the technique used to make a classification.

As a verb aporia is

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taxonomy

Noun

(taxonomies)
  • The science or the technique used to make a classification.
  • A classification; especially , a classification in a hierarchical system.
  • (taxonomy, uncountable) The science of finding, describing, classifying and naming organisms.
  • Synonyms

    * alpha taxonomy

    Derived terms

    * folk taxonomy * scientific taxonomy

    See also

    * classification * rank * taxon * domain * kingdom * subkingdom * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * class * subclass * infraclass * superorder * order * suborder * infraorder * parvorder * superfamily * family * subfamily * genus * species * subspecies * superregnum * regnum * subregnum * superphylum * phylum * subphylum * classis * subclassis * infraclassis * superordo * ordo * subordo * infraordo * taxon * superfamilia * familia * subfamilia * ontology

    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