Seduction
I think that I understand your perspective on the subject matter
For instance, if I say that Mars used to have water, but does not right now.
That statement could be construed as being "scientific".
If I give my impression of what happened to the water by making one of the following statements.
A) It converted into a gas and "escaped" into space due to the lower gravitational field of Mars.
B) Its still there but underground and frozen.
C) I imagine that the Martians used it as rocket fuel and now it is in space.
D) I talked with the Martians and they said that they used it as rocket fuel.
Then I suspect that your response to the "A" & "B" would be that you would need more information to believe the truth in what was postulated.
I think that you would dismiss "C" as a joke, after all it is imagination.
The "D" statement would make you consider it as perversion of imagination and you would totally ignore the imbedded information that indicates the possibility of converting water into rocket fuel.
Am I close to the truth?
Johannes
Seduction
When lovely woman stoops to folly,
And finds too late that men betray,
What charm can soothe her melancholy,
What art can wash her guilt away?
Oliver Goldsmith (1728-74), Anglo-Irish author, poet, playwright. Song sung by Olivia, in The Vicar of Wakefield, ch. 24 (written 1761-62; published 1766).
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