Sentence 1: The poetic cosmogony of Thales , who made water the first element , can be seen as a natural excess of this pre-socratic thinking .
Sentence 2: The poetic cosmogony of Thales , who made water the first element , may be seen as a natural outgrowth of this pre-Socratic thinking .
Question: Do Sentence 1 and Sentence 2 express the same meaning? Yes or No?