Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="jdrakeh" data-source="post: 4739580" data-attributes="member: 13892">I agree that saying &quot;verisimilitude is necessary&quot; without providing specific context is almost silly. The thing is, I don't think anybody who contributed in an important manner to the concept has ever said that &quot;verisimilitude is necessary&quot; without providing a such context. Plato and Aristotle proposed that in order for a piece of art to hold significance or persuasion for an audience, it must have a grounding reality. They didn't say &quot;a grounding reality is necessary&quot; without providing specific context. Likewise, Samuel Taylor Coleridge proposed that a work of fiction must facilitate the reader's willingness to suspend his or her disbelief in order to appeal to a wide audience. As for your other assertion, saying that some level of verisimilitude is necessary for a specific condition to exist implies absolutely none of what you have suggested that it implies. Indeed, the assumed existence of multiple axes of verisimilitude (and other subjective criteria) is a key principle in modern media, especially when it comes to marketing. You may be more familiar with the concept of a &quot;target audience&quot; — one specific demographic (or axis) amongst many. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="jdrakeh, post: 4739580, member: 13892"] I agree that saying "verisimilitude is necessary" without providing specific context is almost silly. The thing is, I don't think anybody who contributed in an important manner to the concept has ever said that "verisimilitude is necessary" [I]without[/I] providing a such context. Plato and Aristotle proposed that [I]in order for a piece of art to hold significance or persuasion for an audience[/I], it must have a grounding reality. They didn't say "a grounding reality is necessary" without providing specific context. Likewise, Samuel Taylor Coleridge proposed that a work of fiction must facilitate the reader's willingness to suspend his or her disbelief [I]in order to appeal to a wide audience[/I]. As for your other assertion, saying that some level of verisimilitude is necessary for a specific condition to exist implies absolutely none of what you have suggested that it implies. Indeed, the assumed existence of multiple axes of verisimilitude (and other subjective criteria) is a key principle in modern media, especially when it comes to marketing. You may be more familiar with the concept of a "target audience" — one specific demographic (or axis) amongst many. ;) [/QUOTE]

Verification