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since in t-3 the Elder believes that the cloud is harmless, does not suspect that Vesuvius had something to do with the phenomenon he is watching, and does not know that he will dieall elements that make his decision to go a little less courageous than if he had known what was to be the further course of events. |
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Let us assume that we are dealing with two narrative worlds: WNct-3 is the world of the narrated beliefs of the characters of the story told by P1for the sake of economy we shall consider only the beliefs of the Elder that coincide with those of both the Younger and his mother, at that time. On the contrary, W0t0 is the world of the story such as it is known by P1 and Tacitus. |
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From this point of view we can consider these two worlds as structured according to S-necessary properties (Eco 1979a:8.7.3), that is, those that link the individuals of the fabula by strict textual interdependence, so that one individual can be defined only in the terms of another. |
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Thus we can outline two world matrices in terms of the following individuals and of their S-necessary properties, where |
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cRe = the relation defining a cloud as the one actually perceived by the Elder in t-3 |
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cRv = the relation defining a cloud as being produced by the eruption of Vesuvius |
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vRe = the relation defining Vesuvius as the fatal agent of the Elder's death |
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The resulting matrices will then be as shown (figure 8.2). |
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One then realizes that none of the individuals of the first world shares the same S-necessary properties of the homonymous individuals of the second one. Thus the individuals are designated by the same names but they are not the same: the cloud of the second world is the one perceived by the Elder and at the same time the one produced by Vesuvius, whereas in the first world, had there been by chance a cloud with the property of being erupted by Vesuvius, it would not have been the same as C1. And so on. |
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Two possible narrative worlds furnished with individuals sharing different S-necessary properties are not narratively accessible. In the same way, a heretic Gospel telling the story of a man called Jesus who is |
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