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But both have been proposed under just the pressure of intertextuality. Probably the reader shifts from one hypothesis to another, and the text has calculated this uncertainty.
Notice that in any case Raoul and Marguerite have been inserted into an S-necessary relation which gives birth to two individuals that the fabula does not know and that the plot has never identified, namely, the two supposed lovers. In fact, as far as S-necessary relations are concerned, in chapter 5 the furniture of WN is actually increased by two brand-new individuals, linked by the mutual relation of meeting each other in a given place. Since the fabula does not say that other people with the same disguise meet at the ball, and since the fabula does not say that Raoul and Marguerite are at the ball, any other inference is without support.
Ghost chapter 2. However, the reader has too many intertextual clues. He is forced to believe (or to believe that it is possible to believe) four alternative possibilities:
(i) Raoul is the Templar and believes that Marguerite is the Pirogue, while it is false.
(ii) Marguerite is the Pirogue and believes that Raoul is the Templar, while it is false.
(iii) Raoul is the Templar and rightly believes that Marguerite is the Pirogue, but he also believes that Marguerite believes that he is her lover.
(iv) Marguerite is the Pirogue and rightly believes that Raoul is the Templar, but she also believes that Raoul believes that she is his mistress.
Provided that the suppositions of ghost chapter 1 were true, each of the suppositions of ghost chapter 2 can hold. All together they are mutually contradictory.
The reader seems to have naively trusted Hintikka (1967:42): ''The fact that a character in a 'complete novel' reacts and behaves precisely in the same way as the member of another possible world is strong evidence for their identification.'' What he has not learned from Hintikka (1962) are all the precautions to be taken when one wants to quantify into opaque contexts governed by an epistemic operator.
In all cases the reader proceeds to a false identification by S-necessary relations: Raoul and Marguerite (either or both) are the individuals who have the property of being in that place at that moment in a specific relation of encounter with someone else. We can suppose that the reader makes one of these four forecasts, or all of them together, awaiting the further state of the fabula to get more clues. We could also

 
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