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    Vraisemblance requires conformity to audience beliefs abo... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→A work can be vraisemblable without being an imitation of real-world or historical events.

    Vraisemblance requires conformity to audience beliefs about what could plausibly occur in a world governed by consistent causal principles.

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    • 1.Audiences evaluate narrative plausibility against their mental models of causality, making shared causal understanding essential for vraisemblance.
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    • 2.Stories violating audience expectations about physical/social laws feel arbitrary, breaking immersion regardless of internal logical consistency.
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    • 3.Historical and scientific literacy vary by audience; vraisemblance depends on conforming to the specific group's causal framework, not absolute reality.
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    • 1.Audience beliefs are often factually wrong; vraisemblance shouldn't require conformity to misconceptions about actual causal principles.
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    • 2.Great fiction creates internally consistent alternate causal systems; audiences accept magical or alien physics if rules remain coherent, not familiar.
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    • 3.Requiring conformity to existing beliefs makes art inherently conservative and unable to challenge or expand audience understanding of possibility.
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