Charles Davis Sep 6, 2012:

Voici un exemple: "La question de l’existence de grandes « femmes poètes » porte donc en elle-même sa propre négation ? sans doute, c’est une aporie en effet : le seul fait de parler de « femmes poètes » implique une spécificité, absente quant aux hommes poètes, et la poésie « de grande stature » ne saurait être spécifique."
http://poezibao.typepad.com/poezibao/2007/01/page/3/

En voici d'autres:

http://www.google.es/search?num=100&hl=es&biw=1024&bih=587&q...

Ellen Kraus Sep 6, 2012:

l´aporie c´est l´incompréhensible, l´imprenable, une question très complexe:
Sophisme - Wikiberal
www.wikiberal.org/wiki/Sophisme - Comme on le voit ci-dessus, il peut prendre la forme d'un syllogisme. ... alors que d'autres sont plus profonds (paradoxes de Zénon). l'aporie (du grec απορíα, ... question complexe (posée de telle façon qu'on ne puisse répondre ni par oui ni par non.

Charles Davis Sep 5, 2012:

Oui http://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/aporie

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aporie

http://livre.fnac.com/a148952/Jacques-Derrida-Apories

María Romita Martínez Mendióroz (asker) Sep 5, 2012:

merci, gracias dit-on vraiment aporie en français?

Charles Davis Sep 5, 2012:

By the way, I forgot to mention "πόρος", which meant a passage-way or opening in ancient Greek but apparently means a pore (in the skin) in modern Greek.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/πόρος

The idea, then, would be that "ά + πορος" would be "no passage".

Charles Davis Sep 5, 2012:

@ Ellen I know the word "aporia" mainly from Derrida and other modern philosophers, who relate it very much to insolubility and undecidability, invoking the idea of an impasse, a point at which one cannot (rationally) proceed. This is consciously based on Plato. I had no idea it meant "question" in modern Greek! Dies ist alles äußerst interessant. Vielen Dank!

Ellen Kraus Sep 5, 2012:

So, Platon shows the way out of the dilemma. He confirms aporia to be identical with perplexity, cluelessness. Interestingly, in German etymology it is compared with Ratlosigkeit (to be at one´s wits end) Ausweglosigkeit, Weglosigkeit which by the way leads to the strange interpretation of the source you quote, i.e.pathlessness. Im heutigen Griechisch ist aporia übrigens verkommen zu "Frage" i aporia tis imeras! die Frage des Tages.

Charles Davis Sep 5, 2012:

@Ellen Thanks! You are a Greek specialist, I know, and I am not; but as I understand it, άπορος means "needy" or "destitute" in modern Greek. In ancient Greek, however, it means "without passage, having no way in, out or through", and hence "impassable", and this, according to Liddell and Scott's A Greek-English Lexicon (standard among English-speaking classicists) is where "ἀπορία" comes from in ancient Greek: they define it as "being ἄπορος", and indicate that Xenophon uses it to mean "of places, difficulty of passing". As a philosophical term I think it was first used by Plato, who uses it to mean "difficulty", "perplexity" or "puzzle". I am not sure whether the verb απορώ existed in ancient Greek, though it seems likely that it is related etymologically to απορία.

However, the etymology of the word is not crucial here; I agree with you that "incomprehensible" is one way of expressing what it means in this Spanish text.

Ellen Kraus Sep 5, 2012:

@Charles. Owing to lack of space in the answer column let me add here a few lines backing what I said with regard to "aporia" απορία - Wiktionary
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/απορία - question, wonder. Να ζει κανείς ή να μη ζει: Ιδού η απορία. To be or not to be: That is the question. destitution, pauperism. επίδομα απορίας. (philosophy) aporia