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    It is not the case that An opera depicting marvelous ancient Greek gods and goddesses can be vraisemblable.

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    Reasons For

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    Reason for 1 of 2
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    • 1.Vraisemblance requires that depicted subjects conform to the audience's operative beliefs about what is real or causally possible.
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    • 2.Enlightenment audiences increasingly regarded Olympian gods as mythological fictions rather than genuine causal agents in the world.
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    • 3.A subject widely recognized as fictional cannot ground vraisemblance, since vraisemblance tracks credibility, not mere logical possibility.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Du Bos grounds vraisemblance in historical and cultural specificity, not in abstract metaphysical permissibility.
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    • 2.Greek gods depicted in opera are transposed into a foreign cultural context divorced from the living religious framework that made them credible.
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    • 3.Vraisemblance fails when subjects are removed from the specific social and epistemic conditions that originally warranted belief in them.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Vraisemblance requires that subjects be depicted as existing in the way they can exist.
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    • 2.Gods and goddesses can be depicted as existing in the manner appropriate to gods and goddesses.
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