# What concrete causality tests for a plot outline follow from the Greek and the Fyfe/Bywater/Butcher wording (dia tade vs meta tade, removal test, episodic plot, unexpected-but-caused, denouement from the plot)?

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Aristotle's text supplies several checkable tests for linking incidents: (1) 'because of this' versus 'after this' (dia tade e meta tade, Poetics ch. 10); (2) a removal or transposition test for unity (ch. 8); (3) an 'episodic' label for plots whose episodes follow each other neither probably nor necessarily (ch. 9); (4) the best surprises are unexpected yet each follows from the other (ch. 9); (5) the denouement should come from the plot itself and not from a machine (ch. 15); (6) characters speak and act as a type of person probably or necessarily would (chs. 9, 15). Converting these to an outline checklist (adjacency labelling, remove-one test, machine-resolution flag) is my synthesis; the sources state the principles, not the checklist or any pass/fail threshold.

Aristotle's text supplies several checkable tests for linking incidents: (1) 'because of this' versus 'after this' (dia tade e meta tade, Poetics ch. 10); (2) a removal or transposition test for unity (ch. 8); (3) an 'episodic' label for plots whose episodes follow each other neither probably nor necessarily (ch. 9); (4) the best surprises are unexpected yet each follows from the other (ch. 9); (5) the denouement should come from the plot itself and not from a machine (ch. 15); (6) characters speak and act as a type of person probably or necessarily would (chs. 9, 15). Converting these to an outline checklist (adjacency labelling, remove-one test, machine-resolution flag) is my synthesis; the sources state the principles, not the checklist or any pass/fail threshold.

Curator qualifications: Fyfe: 'propter hoc and post hoc' 1, 'transposed or removed' 1, 'one is a consequence of the other' 1, 'not produced mechanically' 1. Greek 'τάδε διὰ τάδε ἢ μετὰ τάδε' 1. Butcher 'necessary or probable' 3. Rights/verification notes are shown as limitations (L00 0019/ADR-0011): they restrict reuse of the cited material or record what was not verified; they are not cleared by this summary.

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- [sourced_fact] Aristotle's text supplies several checkable tests for linking incidents: (1) 'because of this' versus 'after this' (dia tade e meta tade, Poetics ch. 10); (2) a removal or transposition test for unity (ch. 8); (3) an 'episodic' label for plots whose episodes follow each other neither probably nor necessarily (ch. 9); (4) the best surprises are unexpected yet each follows from the other (ch. 9); (5) the denouement should come from the plot itself and not from a machine (ch. 15); (6) characters speak and act as a type of person probably or necessarily would (chs. 9, 15). Converting these to an outline checklist (adjacency labelling, remove-one test, machine-resolution flag) is my synthesis; the sources state the principles, not the checklist or any pass/fail threshold. · locator: see curator disposition · source: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PerseusDL/canonical-greekLit/0189b9c8d8d1f148133f2f0af309b4ee90ea4332/data/tlg0086/tlg034/tlg0086.tlg034.perseus-grc2.xml

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