,
in statu nascendi) can serve as a proxy for the momentary thrust of
interpretive dynamics, to whatever degree that the called for process
can be explicated.

To put a finer point on this result I can do no better at this stage
of discussion than to recount the "metaphorical argument" that Peirce
persistently uses to illustrate the same conclusion.

| I think we need to reflect upon the circumstance that every word implies
| some proposition or, what is the same thing, every word, concept, symbol
| has an 