The thesis is this: you cannot grow a pumpkin. All you can do is put a pumpkin seed in conditions that encourage it to grow. It does the growing all by itself.
The author clearly intends this to be an analogy, but leaves it to you to decide what it's an analogy for, specifically.
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You can't make me read.
But you can entice me with a catchy title.
Thanks for taking one for the team, what's this about then?
The thesis is this: you cannot grow a pumpkin. All you can do is put a pumpkin seed in conditions that encourage it to grow. It does the growing all by itself.
The author clearly intends this to be an analogy, but leaves it to you to decide what it's an analogy for, specifically.