Word of the Week 3: Aporia

Meaning: Aporia is a state of puzzlement, doubt, or seemingly insoluble difficulty.

Etymology: It comes from Greek aporia (“impasse, difficulty, lack of passage”), from a (“without”) + poros (“passage, way”). Plato used it to describe the perplexity Socrates often produced in his interlocutors.

Example in a Sentence: “Confronted with conflicting evidence, the committee found itself in aporia.”