A variant form of aporetic; relating to aporia or characterized by logical perplexity and intellectual difficulty.
From aporia with the suffix -ical (variant of -ic). This is a more formal or archaic version of the same word used in philosophical texts.
Philosophers use 'aporetical' to describe those frustrating moments in arguments where you've logically proven two opposite things seem equally true—it's less common than 'aporetic' but sounds extra sophisticated in academic papers.
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