In order to identify laws, one must accept natural facts with wonder; in other words, one must dissolve their 'self-evident' nature to reach an understanding of them. To discover the law in the case of a projectile body, various possible interpretations must be activated in one's imagination; among these hypothetical possibilities, the physical, real probability will be the correct one, and then the others will prove to be false.

Theater, through its own effects-A, can motivate the spectator to adopt this questioning, inventive, and critical stance; however, the fact that this is a stance that must also be adopted by the sciences does not, in any way, turn the theater into a scientific institution. It is simply a theater of the scientific age. It uses for the theatrical event the stance that the spectator takes in life itself.

To put it differently: identification is not the only source of feelings available to art.

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]