GR translation: We seek no wider agency in this.

[Mike Jing]

P276.4-11   “And what if many—even if most—of the Slothropian stars are
proved, some distant day, to refer to sexual fantasies instead of real
events? This would hardly invalidate our approach, any more than it did
young Sigmund Freud’s, back there in old Vienna, facing a similar violation
of probability—all those Papi-has-rapedme stories, which might have been
lies evidentially, but were certainly the truth clinically. You must
realize: we are concerned, at PISCES, with a rather strictly defined,
clinical version of truth. We seek no wider agency in this.”

What does Pointsman mean by the last sentence?  Is the "agency" his own act
of inquiry, or does it refer to the hidden cause of Slothrop's apparent
ability to predict the rocket's course?  Or something else entirely?
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