In Butcher's Poetics XIX, what does 'Thought' cover, what does the chapter hand over to the Rhetoric, and how does that fit the earlier definition of Thought in VI?
XIX says Thought covers every effect that has to be produced by speech, and lists three: proof and refutation; exciting feelings such as pity, fear, anger; suggesting importance or its opposite. The chapter does not teach any of the three: it says it assumes what the Rhetoric says, where the subject 'more strictly belongs'. VI had defined Thought as saying what is possible and pertinent in the circumstances and tied it to the political and rhetorical arts, so XIX is a short pointer, not a technique. For a newcomer: in this text Thought is about what a speech is doing to the listener, not about the ideas in the story.
XIX says Thought covers every effect that has to be produced by speech, and lists three: proof and refutation; exciting feelings such as pity, fear, anger; suggesting importance or its opposite. The chapter does not teach any of the three: it says it assumes what the Rhetoric says, where the subject 'more strictly belongs'. VI had defined Thought as saying what is possible and pertinent in the circumstances and tied it to the political and rhetorical arts, so XIX is a short pointer, not a technique. For a newcomer: in this text Thought is about what a speech is doing to the listener, not about the ideas in the story.
Curator qualifications: Thought covers the effects produced by speech, and is deferred to the Rhetoric (not in the file).
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