ABSTRACT
The traditional Aristotelian logic is essentially the logic of classes of existences or facts. The realm of valid logical inference is, therefore, wider than the realm of factual existence. The logic of fiction belongs to this realm of non-factual logic. Aristotle himself in a famous passage in his Poetics clearly rejected the positivistic implication of his logic, by asserting that poetry is truer and more earnest than history. This dictum, which is generally felt to contain a profound truth, cannot be justified on the Aristotelian logic which divides all propositions so sharply into the existentially true and false as to leave no room for poetry or fiction except in the realm of the false. The fact that metaphors express the primal perception of things with something of its undifferentiated atmosphere gives these metaphors an emotional power which more elaborate and accurate statements do not have. This is perhaps best seen in the profoundly simple metaphors of the New Testament.
