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by a complex action I mean one wherein the change coincides with a discovery or reversal or both.

These should result from the actual structure of the plot in such a way that what has already happened makes the result inevitable or probable;

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for there is indeed a vast difference between what happens propter hoc and post hoc.

A reversal is a change of the situation into the opposite, as described above,[*] this change being, moreover, as we are saying, probable or inevitable

like the man in the Oedipus who came to cheer Oedipus and rid him of his anxiety about his mother by revealing his parentage and changed the whole situation.[*] In the Lynceus, too, there is the man led off to execution and

Danaus following to kill him, and the result of what had already happened was that the latter was killed and the former escaped.[*]

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