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How does Butcher's XVI rank the kinds of recognition, what reason does it give for each rank, and where does the text give no reason?

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Butcher's XVI states ranks and reasons for the extremes but not for every position. Least artistic: signs, 'from poverty of wit'; formal proof by tokens is 'less artistic'. Next, recognitions invented by the poet are 'wanting in art' because the speaker says what the poet, not the plot, requires. Memory and reasoning are listed third and fourth with no rank word and no reason in their own paragraphs. Best: recognition arising from the incidents themselves by natural means, which dispenses with tokens; reasoning comes 'next' after it. A better kind (the Bath Scene, a turn of incident) is placed inside the signs paragraph, and 'the Iphigenia' is cited both for a faulty recognition (Orestes announcing himself) and for the best one (her letter), so the ranking applies to how the discovery arises, not to the play.

Butcher's XVI states ranks and reasons for the extremes but not for every position. Least artistic: signs, 'from poverty of wit'; formal proof by tokens is 'less artistic'. Next, recognitions invented by the poet are 'wanting in art' because the speaker says what the poet, not the plot, requires. Memory and reasoning are listed third and fourth with no rank word and no reason in their own paragraphs. Best: recognition arising from the incidents themselves by natural means, which dispenses with tokens; reasoning comes 'next' after it. A better kind (the Bath Scene, a turn of incident) is placed inside the signs paragraph, and 'the Iphigenia' is cited both for a faulty recognition (Orestes announcing himself) and for the best one (her letter), so the ranking applies to how the discovery arises, not to the play. Curator qualifications: Reasons stated only for the extremes; middle ranks have positions without reasons. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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      "url": "https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1974/pg1974.txt",
      "note": "XVI"
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  • [sourced_fact] Butcher's XVI states ranks and reasons for the extremes but not for every position. Least artistic: signs, 'from poverty of wit'; formal proof by tokens is 'less artistic'. Next, recognitions invented by the poet are 'wanting in art' because the speaker says what the poet, not the plot, requires. Memory and reasoning are listed third and fourth with no rank word and no reason in their own paragraphs. Best: recognition arising from the incidents themselves by natural means, which dispenses with tokens; reasoning comes 'next' after it. A better kind (the Bath Scene, a turn of incident) is placed inside the signs paragraph, and 'the Iphigenia' is cited both for a faulty recognition (Orestes announcing himself) and for the best one (her letter), so the ranking applies to how the discovery arises, not to the play. · locator: XVI source

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