Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, for sure.

Let's say that Okay, one way of thinking about this in light of the topic of experience I was just talking about and the impossible experience of remembering your own beginning and giving an account of what it's like to begin is to say that this is a certain kind of fiction that belongs to a larger group of fictions.

We might call them fictions of subtraction.

The state of nature is one such fiction.

Accounts of creation might be another.

Let's take away all the extra stuff and get right down to the core of what something is by subtracting away what's unnecessary.

Yeah.