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n.
5L, doubt < Gr, perplexity < aporos, impassable < a3, not + poros, passage: see PORE26
1 a difficulty, as in a philosophical or literary text, caused by an indeterminacy of meaning for which no resolution seems possible
2 a condition of uncertainty or skeptical doubt resulting from this
Why is it that so many philosopy books have this fault?
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