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    It is not the case that Vraisemblance requires that depicted subjects conform to the audience's operative beliefs about what is real or causally possible.

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    • 1.Audiences suspend disbelief for internally consistent fictional worlds regardless of conformity to their real-world beliefs about possibility.
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    • 2.Some artworks deliberately violate audience expectations to create meaning; this would be impossible if vraisemblance required belief-conformity.
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    • 3.Vraisemblance concerns coherence within depicted worlds, not alignment with audience epistemology; fantasy requires different standards than realism.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Audiences evaluate narrative plausibility against their existing knowledge; violations create cognitive dissonance that disrupts engagement.
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    • 2.Shared beliefs about causality form the common ground enabling communication; departure from them requires explicit narrative justification.
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    • 3.Historical audiences accepted different impossibilities as vraisemblable; this proves vraisemblance depends on operative beliefs, not objective reality.
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