Probable impossibilities?

[Guest]

Hello eveyone

I came up with one quotation of Aristotle that I couldn't understand.
The quote is " Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. "

What is its possible meaning?

Thanks in advance
Jupiter

[Mister Micawber]

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Not an easy text, Jupiter. Here is one excerpt which may help us understand it:

"One of Aristotle’s most important observations about effective dramatic structure, although it is infrequently cited, is “Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities” (Chapter 24). By taking old stories, often complicating them with unexpected twists, and simultaneously inventing new social paradigms, they set up a dramatic situation in which familiar problems are made thought-provokingly strange and thus forever new."

Aristotle was discussing tragedy, and trying to suggest that the playwright would do better to present actions or events that, although impossible, would at least seem probable to the audience. To present an event that is possible, but that seems improbable to the viewers, will not be as convincing to them.
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