Just as readers who enter into a compact of faith with an author are able to suspend — hold in abeyance — their knowledge that the features of a narrative (flying dragons, magic rings) are implausible, so can readers suspend their knowledge of how a story will turn out.
He just has a knowledge of the story and what is needed for a newspaper.
By appeal to some putative features of our cognitive architecture, Gerrig claims that people are unable to effectively make use of their knowledge of the outcome of a story in such a way that would preclude suspense.
The moment-by-moment forgetting theory effectively denies that we do have knowledge of the outcome of a story, even if we have read it before.
A further problem with Gerrig's theory is that it cannot account for a common phenomenon of repeated viewing, namely that with knowledge of the outcome of a story we are able to notice things that we might otherwise find unexceptional.
Fishers' ecological knowledge (FEK) tells a story of serial depletion in lobster abundance at fishing grounds located closest to the fishing port with an associated decline in catch per unit effort (CPUE) throughout recent history.
Kroll's report, which the Guardian believes to be genuine, concludes: "Given their employment with News International, their antipathy toward the Telegraph, and their knowledge of the story, we have a strong suspicion that [the other former Telegraph employee] and Lewis were involved in orchestrating the leak of the information".
"We don't have any knowledge of the story of the family," a spokeswoman, Jen Psaki, said on Air Force One earlier this week.
I hesitated in choosing among these fables because a writer's single item of professional knowledge is that a story is a speculation about the world, composed under the sign of luck rather than of law or reason.
People with no direct knowledge of that story or of those events don't have a place in the film.
