Probable Impossibilities and Improbable Possibilities

προαιρεῖσθαί τε δεῖ ἀδύνατα εἰκότα μᾶλλον ἢ δυνατὰ ἀπίθανα:

Probable impossibilities are preferable to implausible possibilities.

(Aristotle, Poetics 60a (1460a); trans. Malcolm Heath)

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