• Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

  Aristotle
  Greek philosopher 384 v.C. - 322 v.C.
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1. philosophic
2. statements
3. universals
4. singulars
5. nature
6. those

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Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars. by : Aristotle

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