I am bored, but definitely not cute, and not butt-hurt (I banned myself).
Anyway, it's my turn to clarify. I was thinking of Feynman's statement that the laws of physics work locally, that there is no action-at-a-distance (I think it's early in his Lectures). I saw the involved parties and their interactions, which moreover matched a pattern in my own and others' past experience (law-like). I used that pattern and those observations to make an informed conclusion, with high confidence.