aporia (en)

(noun) an expression of real or pretended doubt or uncertainty especially for rhetorical effect / (noun) a logical impasse or contradiction / (noun) a radical contradiction in the import of a text or theory that is seen in deconstruction as inevitable

—p.92 "Then Out of the Rubble": David Foster Wallace's Early Fiction (85) by Bradley J. Fest 7 years, 8 months ago