 conceived, and this is a different matter from understanding
the state of grace that it may have enjoyed in its ethereal heaven
before it came time for it to be borne into this earthly existence.

More prosaically, we would like to understand the process by which
a potential concept, hypothesis, idea, sign, term, or similar item
transits from being a formal possibility in nobody in particular's
mind and passes into a term of utility in somebody in particular's
conduit of thought.

There is nothing terribly