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    It is not the case that Poetry has a wider sphere of truth accessible to it than painting or music.

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    • 1.Natural signs in painting and music produce immediate, non-discursive access to emotional and perceptual truths that propositional language cannot replicate.
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    • 2.Truths about felt experience, color relations, and tonal affect are constitutively tied to their medium and cannot be adequately paraphrased in verbal signs.
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    • 3.An art form that accesses truths only expressible within its own medium has a domain of truth unavailable to poetry, not merely a narrower subset of the same domain.
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    • 1.The arbitrariness of linguistic signs, celebrated as liberating by Lessing, introduces a layer of convention that distances poetry from direct phenomenal truth.
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    • 2.Herder argues in the Kritische Wälder that poetry's temporal unfolding of signs creates a thinner, more mediated contact with reality than the simultaneity of painterly composition.
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    • 3.Greater representational scope does not entail greater access to truth if the medium's indirectness systematically distorts or impoverishes what it represents.
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    • 1.Poetry uses artificial signs whose content is not constrained by the natural properties of the signs.
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    • 2.Painting and music use natural signs, which restrict their representational scope to objects in space and temporal successions, respectively.
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    • 3.An art form unconstrained in its representational scope can access a wider range of truths than art forms that are constrained.
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