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In article <4ousv4$iea@rebecca.albany.edu>
labonnes@csc.albany.edu (S. LaBonne) writes:

> What makes a story "convincing"?


As a general answer to that I can only give you words like richness and
utility which will be rejected as meaningless.  You want some sort of
formula, I suppose, but that is just what I am out to refuse you.


David

"Resistance to the proposition that the essence of truth is freedom is
based on preconceptions, the most obstinate of which is that freedom is
a property of man."  Martin Heidegger, "On the Essence of Truth," [Vom
Wesen der Wahrheit] translated by John Sallis, in "Basic Writings,"
(old version, 1977) p.126.
