Even more dangerously, from the standpoint of anybody who likes poetry, he talks instead of "statement," meaning science, and "pseudo-statement," meaning poetry.

更危险的是，在任何一个热爱诗歌的人看来，他转用“陈述“指代科学，用“伪陈述“指代诗歌。

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Once we sort of settle into this vocabulary, and once we get used to this clearly unquestioningly scientific perspective, why on earth do we need pseudo-statement or fiction at all?

一旦我们习惯了这种用语，一旦我们习惯了,这种科学视角，我们为什么还需要伪陈述和虚构呢？

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You are really out on a limb - if you're going to defend poetry--as Richards kept doing-- as "pseudo-statement," but of course pseudo-statement" is just another expression for what he calls here "fiction."

你会陷入孤立无援的境地,如果你像，Richards一样-,说诗歌是“伪陈述“,当然，这里“伪陈述“只是,“虚构“的另一种说法“

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