Note 11 — Chapter VI · THE POETIC OF ARISTOTLE[1]
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ποιητικῆς. The adjective means generally active, productive, creative, efficiens, as commonly in Aristotle’s philosophy, in Dionysius and Demetrius, and in Plotinus. Specially it means poetic, as of diction. The noun ἡ ποιητικὴ (with τέχνη understood) includes all imaginative composition in words.