 Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.  Dictionary of Concepts in Historyby Harry Ritter - 1986 - 490 pagesNo preview available - About this book
 | Aristotle - Literary Collections - 1920 - 100 pages
...one describes the thing that has been, and the other a kind of thing that might be.« Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import...universals, whereas those of history are singulars. By a universal statement I mean one as to what such or such a kind of man will probably or necessarily... | |
 | John Dewar Denniston - Criticism - 1924 - 276 pages
...the one describes the thing that has been, and the other a kind of thing that might be. Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import...universals, whereas those of history are singulars. By a universal statement I mean one as to what such or such a kind of man will probably or necessarily... | |
 | R. W. LIVINGSTONE - 1924 - 476 pages
...• v/* describes the thing that has been, and the other a kind of thing that might be. Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import...universals, whereas those of history are singulars. By a universal statement I mean one as to what such or such a kind of man will probably or necessarily... | |
 | Charles Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre - Peace - 1927 - 392 pages
...the one describes the thing that has been, and the other a kind of thing that might be. Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import...universals, whereas those of history are singulars. By a universal statement I mean one as to what such or such a kind of man will probably or necessarily... | |
 | Aristotle - Literary Collections - 1920 - 100 pages
...the one describes the thing that has been, and the other a kind of thing that might be. Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import...universals, whereas those of history are singulars. By a universal statement I mean one as to what such or such a kind of man will probably or necessarily... | |
 | Louis L. Bucciarelli - Design - 1994 - 234 pages
...working in the past, is not historical verse; her model describes more than "the thing that has been." It is "something more philosophic and of graver import...universals, whereas those of history are singulars." Beth 's model of a photovoltaic system will account for all such systems, for all time. History is... | |
 | Akbar S. Ahmed - Religion - 1994 - 282 pages
...describe, not the thing that has happened, but a kind of thing that might happen . . . Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import...statements are of the nature rather of universals . . . what convinces is the possible. Persuasive rhetoric constructs a fable of the possible out of... | |
 | Frank Ankersmit, Hans Kellner - History - 1995 - 300 pages
...the one describes the thing that has been, and the other a kind of thing that might be. Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import...rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.17 To regard the early use of historical fiction as a response to the rhetorical demands... | |
 | Suzanne Stern-Gillet - Philosophy - 1995 - 246 pages
...world, we may care to remember that Aristotle is also the philosopher who wrote that "Poetry is (. . .) of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars."3 6 SELF-LOVE Self-love, my liege, is not so... | |
 | Merold Westphal - Apologetics - 1996 - 284 pages
...essence is universality and thus possibility. Climacus reminds us of Aristotle's claim that poetry is "something more philosophic and of graver import...universals, whereas those of history are singulars" )318). 1S He does not share this view of the relative importance of the universal and the singular,... | |
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