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(8.) I am referring to the Aristotelian definition of fable, which according to Ranciere (2006), bears "the arrangement of necessary and verisimilar actions that lead the characters from fortune to misfortune, or vice versa, through the careful construction of the intrigue [noeud] and denouement" (1).

Possible virtualities materialize as verisimilar, "realistic" utopias (from a literary point of view), while impossible virtualities are found in fantastic, incredible or absurd utopias.

Each kind has a single inventor, in this theory, or at most two or three: epic goes back to Homer, tragedy to Aeschylus, the verisimilar novel to Fielding and Richardson, the historical novel to Scott, the open-form long poem to Pound and Williams" (Bloom 14).

finds an early modern voice that challenged a hermeneutic of ecclesiastical history as a story of undoubted, unchanging continuity, and pointed instead to post-Reformation culture as a "mix of certainty and uncertainly, truth and verisimilar, facts and interpretations" (99).

192 by bishops seem to become verisimilar. On the other hand, it remains difficult to explain why this assumption is not applicable to the simple monk.

Much as Aristotle had claimed that the mixed constitution could guard against the abuses of "extreme democracy or unmixed oligarchy, or a tyranny due to the excesses of either," Guarini defends tragicomedy as a form that mediates the harmful extremes of tragedy and comedy, taking "from tragedy its great persons but not its great action, its verisimilar plot but not its true one, ...

One cannot make conceivable moral judgments regarding terrorism unless one has a compatible, verisimilar set of moral standards (Lazaroiu, 2014) concerning war and political brute force.

In the ancient Greece, Corax and Tisias (both of them orators, lawyers and politicians) realized the value of persuasion and emphasized the role of verisimilar. The verisimilar consists in a mental reconfiguration of some situations when we have not been witnesses, but which start spontaneously in each of us, following strict rules valuable for all minds.

(121) Whatever the case, we have here a clear case of history being effectively made up at the margins, and given a flavour which adds up to plain but attractive and verisimilar Christian propaganda, but also displays the way character, conversation, and bearing can operate to reverse seemingly impossible circumstances.

The primary characteristics of verisimilar agent-based models are based on realistically defining the agents and their relationships in an interaction landscape so that their evolution over time accurately reproduces the dynamics of the system being modeled.