Aporia. Features of Aporia презентация

or a writer expresses uncertainty or doubt—often pretended uncertainty or doubt—about something, usually as a way of proving a point.

is also called “dubitation,” which means that the uncertainty is always untruthful.
It could be a question or a statement.
It is often used in philosophy. It relates to philosophical questions and subjects which have no obvious answers.
Plato and Socrates were well-known for using aporia.

poem which begins, "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways."
Browning's pretense that she might not remember all "the ways" is what gives her an opportunity to enumerate them.

the question. Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all…”

I, say I. Unbelieving. Questions, hypotheses, call them that. Keep going, going on, call that going, call that on.”
“…or by affirmations and negations invalidated as uttered, or sooner or later?”
“…There must be other shifts. Otherwise it would be quite hopeless. I should mention before going any further…”
“Can one be aphetic otherwise than unawares? I don’t know.”
“What am I to do, what shall I do, what should I do, in my situation, how proceed? By aporia pure and simple…”
“It will be I? It will be the silence, where I am, I don’t know, I’ll never know, in the silence you don’t know, you must go on, I can’t go on, I’ll go on.”