What is the relationship if any between apopria and the origins of Aristotelian-influenced empiricism? Seems that if ancient philosophers encountered apopria enough, as in leaping out of the context or rearranging it and then approaching from different angles as in Socratic dialectic, they would perhaps get a progressively better grasp for the context-dependent nature of knowledge. Investigative reasoning might with this prompt become more tightly bound to the details of particular circumstances and start to develop subject-specific methods of analysis while drifting away from a static routine of pure logical intuiting. Were apopria merely a Platonic literary device, an expositional method, or the turning point in Western thought's history, a confrontation with contradiction that inspired philosophy towards empirical study as a branching tree of distinct fact-gathering disciplines with some kind of influence on differentiation into what we know as academic departments of professional specialization?

A larger scale and related issue: what was the impact of antiquity's philosophical academia on organized learning generally and broader culture compared to modernity? I'm especially interested in Europe, but insight about further regions is welcome.