aporesis

== English == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek ἀπόρησις (apórēsis) synonym of ἀπορία (aporía) and of the same root. === Noun === aporesis (uncountable) Knowing perplexity, knowing the extent of one's wisdom. === See also === aporia === 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 Buddhist 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."