defining forgiveness

"forgiveness" has at least three common dimensions of interest. 

1. a cost was incurred

2. we are assigning causal blame to a party

3a. we will seek reparations via realpolitik

3b. we are going to be cognitively impaired by the facts 1, 2

Logical structure, necessarily :1 and 2 and not either 3a or 3b