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Page 141
The importance of truth to the dramatist is that it adds to interest , but to the dramatist truth is only verisimilitude . It is what he can persuade his audience to accept . If they will believe that a man can doubt his wife's fidelity ...
The importance of truth to the dramatist is that it adds to interest , but to the dramatist truth is only verisimilitude . It is what he can persuade his audience to accept . If they will believe that a man can doubt his wife's fidelity ...
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But the gods never make any of their gifts without adding to it a drawback and this multiplicity of the writer that enables him , like the gods , to create human beings prevents him from achieving perfect truth in their creation .
But the gods never make any of their gifts without adding to it a drawback and this multiplicity of the writer that enables him , like the gods , to create human beings prevents him from achieving perfect truth in their creation .
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These three values are Truth , Beauty and Goodness . I have a notion that Truth finds a place in this list for rhetorical reasons . Man invests it with ethical qualities , such as courage , honour and independence of spirit , which ...
These three values are Truth , Beauty and Goodness . I have a notion that Truth finds a place in this list for rhetorical reasons . Man invests it with ethical qualities , such as courage , honour and independence of spirit , which ...
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| Title | THE SUMMING UP |
| Author | W. SOMER MAUGHAI |
| Published | 1938 |
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