effectiveness of the incomplete

is the idea that incomplete presentation of an idea is sometimes more effective than exhaustiveness since more is left for the beholder to do, to think it through to the end.

The effectiveness of the incomplete. Just as figures in relief produce so strong an impression on the imagination because they are as it were on the point of stepping out of the wall but have suddenly been brought to a halt, so the relief-like, incomplete presentation of an idea, of a whole philosophy, is sometimes more effective than its exhaustive realization: more is left for the beholder to do, he is impelled to continue working on that which appears before him so strongly etched in light and shadow, to think it through to the end, and to overcome even that constraint which has hitherto prevented it from stepping forth fully formed. (nietzsche 'human all too' 92)

effectiveness of the incomplete, n.Definitions

effectiveness of the incomplete