parable

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  Parable is built and maintained for the sake of teaching (Law 8d). A parable is a narrative device whose designed purpose is to teach moral or spiritual lessons through analogy. Servant (parable) points at master (teaching). By design and sustained practice in religious, philosophical, and educational traditions.

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  A parable IS a specific kind of narrative — a short story designed to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson. Per Law 9: specific→general. A competent speaker would call a parable 'a narrative' (specifically, a didactic one). Files against nearest kind: narrative is more specific than tool or discourse.

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  Pinned sense (Law 11d): allegory per its accepted definition = a structured narrative mapping one domain of meaning onto another through sustained symbolic correspondence, where surface elements stand in for abstract ideas. The parable's accepted definition carves exactly this mechanism: parameter (2) is 'a mapping between narrative elements and the intended lesson' — the surface story stands in for the moral lesson. A parable is a brief, concrete instance of that kind: allegory is the nearest accepted kind that carves the mapping mechanism, more specific than the narrative the parable already instantiates (parable is both a narrative by form and an allegory by mechanism; the two classifications are compatible, and allegory sits under rhetoric, not narrative, so this adds a new specific kind rather than a derivable ladder leap). Direction is specific to general.

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