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How does Poetics XXV (Butcher) decide whether a flagged flaw is a real fault, an excusable one or none: what is the end-of-art test, the essential/accidental ranking and the by-whom/to-whom/when/means/end test?

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For matters of the poet's own art, XXV allows an impossibility to be justified when the end of the art is thereby attained (the pursuit of Hector is the case in point), but not when the same end could have been reached as well or better without violating the rules of the art, since every kind of error should if possible be avoided. Faults are also ranked: ignorance that a hind has no horns is less serious than painting it inartistically. Separately, an act or saying is not to be judged in isolation as poetically good or bad: ask by whom, to whom, when, by what means and for what end, for instance whether it secures a greater good or averts a greater evil. The text offers no measure for "more striking" or "less serious".

For matters of the poet's own art, XXV allows an impossibility to be justified when the end of the art is thereby attained (the pursuit of Hector is the case in point), but not when the same end could have been reached as well or better without violating the rules of the art, since every kind of error should if possible be avoided. Faults are also ranked: ignorance that a hind has no horns is less serious than painting it inartistically. Separately, an act or saying is not to be judged in isolation as poetically good or bad: ask by whom, to whom, when, by what means and for what end, for instance whether it secures a greater good or averts a greater evil. The text offers no measure for "more striking" or "less serious". Curator qualifications: End-of-art rule; 'the end' not traced to earlier definition. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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      "note": "XXV"
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  • [sourced_fact] For matters of the poet's own art, XXV allows an impossibility to be justified when the end of the art is thereby attained (the pursuit of Hector is the case in point), but not when the same end could have been reached as well or better without violating the rules of the art, since every kind of error should if possible be avoided. Faults are also ranked: ignorance that a hind has no horns is less serious than painting it inartistically. Separately, an act or saying is not to be judged in isolation as poetically good or bad: ask by whom, to whom, when, by what means and for what end, for instance whether it secures a greater good or averts a greater evil. The text offers no measure for "more striking" or "less serious". · locator: XXV source

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