Lessing's Laocoon establishes that artistic media impose constraints and possibilities irreducible to mirroring reality, so artistic value emerges from how a medium is navigated, not from fidelity to appearance.
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Mirroring reality(as a standard artistic value that Lessing rejects)
The idea that art should simply copy or accurately represent what the real world looks like—like a photograph showing exactly what you'd see.
constraints(Used in the context of time travel space-times to distinguish genuine lawlike constraints from mere contingent compatibility)
Restrictions on states on spatial surfaces that hold as a matter of law rather than accidental fact
irreducible(Personalist anthropology; distinguishes personhood from mere biological individuality)
That which is unique and unrepeatable in each human being, by virtue of which a person is not merely an individual of a species but a personal subject.