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2. Aristotle's Poetics

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Is Poetry More Philosophical Than History?

In order to construct probable or necessary sequence of events, the poet must draw on their knowledge or their beliefs anyway about how individuals of that kind are likely to behave. On Aristotle's view, history just records what particular individuals did and makes no claims about how they actually behaved. But it's because poetry encodes in this way that we've talked about. So very pointedly, he draws from this claim, the claim that poetry is therefore more philosophical than history.

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