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    Challenges→The dramatic unities of time, place, and action were not artificial constraints for the Greeks, though they would be artificial for modern dramatists.

    If the unities are staging conventions rather than cultural expressions, their binding force is either universal-technical or absent, not culturally relative as the claim requires.

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    Cultural expressions(as used in cultural philosophy)
    Ideas, behaviors, or practices that arise naturally from a particular culture and reflect its values, beliefs, or way of life.
    Culturally relative(as used in cultural philosophy and ethics)
    The idea that something's meaning, truth, or validity depends on the specific culture examining it—what's right in one culture might be wrong in another.
    Universal-technical(as used in philosophy of culture)
    Rules or principles that apply to everyone everywhere because they work the same way regardless of context, like the rules of mathematics or engineering.
    binding force(as used in ethics and law)
    The power to create a real obligation that people should follow, not just a suggestion.
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    Standard practical techniques and customs used in theater—like how stages are physically built or how actors typically move around them.
    unities(metaphysics/ontology)
    Things that are genuinely one single thing, held together as a complete whole rather than just a random collection of parts.

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