Well, my point is that fiction isn’t argument at all, it’s a theme for musing on your own questions. It’s sometimes useful to read even something you know to be wrong, on a theme interesting for you, written by a thoughtful author. You don’t expect to move towards agreement, you know the stuff is wrong, but you can light sparks of your own insight off its pages. When given a mathematical proof, its correctness is for you to appraise. Fiction gives you your own thoughts, take them or leave them.
Well, my point is that fiction isn’t argument at all, it’s a theme for musing on your own questions. It’s sometimes useful to read even something you know to be wrong, on a theme interesting for you, written by a thoughtful author. You don’t expect to move towards agreement, you know the stuff is wrong, but you can light sparks of your own insight off its pages. When given a mathematical proof, its correctness is for you to appraise. Fiction gives you your own thoughts, take them or leave them.