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Before I call something in a story a contradiction, what reading procedure does Poetics XXV (Butcher) prescribe, and what mistake in critics does it warn against?

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XXV says to treat sounding contradictions by the rules of dialectical refutation: ask whether the same thing is meant, in the same relation, and in the same sense, and settle it from what the poet says himself or from what an intelligent person tacitly assumes. For a word that seems inconsistent, count the senses it can bear in that passage. Language solutions listed with Greek examples include metaphor ("all" for "many"), accent, punctuation, ambiguity and usage. It warns, quoting Glaucon, against critics who adopt a groundless conclusion, reason from it and fault the poet for not matching their own assumption; the Icarius case is the worked example. Examples are tied to Greek verse; their use on modern scripts is a proposal.

XXV says to treat sounding contradictions by the rules of dialectical refutation: ask whether the same thing is meant, in the same relation, and in the same sense, and settle it from what the poet says himself or from what an intelligent person tacitly assumes. For a word that seems inconsistent, count the senses it can bear in that passage. Language solutions listed with Greek examples include metaphor ("all" for "many"), accent, punctuation, ambiguity and usage. It warns, quoting Glaucon, against critics who adopt a groundless conclusion, reason from it and fault the poet for not matching their own assumption; the Icarius case is the worked example. Examples are tied to Greek verse; their use on modern scripts is a proposal. Curator qualifications: Reading apparent contradictions. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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