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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 9046592" data-attributes="member: 42582">I agree that different approaches to invention will produce different things.My assertion is that this doesn't stop them being inventions and (in our current context) works of imagination.To present a stark example: I can build my Lego spaceport based on ideas about what looks cool (having just watched Star Wars or Star Trek or whatever); or based on my ideas about what would make sense in a spaceport (say, fuel tanks, launch pads, etc). The two things I'm making up might end up looking different. But they're still both things that I made up! (Given that everything I know about space travel I learned from reading some popular histories, a bit of Wikipedia, and watching movies.)</blockquote>