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    It is not the case that Du Bos's extension of vraisemblance to 'the marvelous' severs the concept from its Aristotelian grounding in recognizable reality, rendering it explanatorily vacuous.

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    • 1.The marvelous can be psychologically vraisemblable—audiences recognize believable emotional responses and character logic within impossible premises.
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    • 2.Aristotle himself permits thaumaston (wonder) in tragedy; Du Bos extends rather than severs this classical precedent for aesthetic plausibility.
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    • 3.Explanatory vacuity requires showing Du Bos's framework explains nothing; but it meaningfully distinguishes compelling from incoherent fantastical narratives.
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    • 1.Aristotelian vraisemblance requires probability grounded in observable human nature and natural laws; the marvelous violates these constraints.
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    • 2.Once vraisemblance permits supernatural or impossible events, it loses predictive power to distinguish plausible from arbitrary narratives.
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    • 3.Du Bos's extension conflates 'coherent internal logic' with 'verisimilitude,' abandoning the concept's original empirical anchoring.
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