me to approach their
answers any time soon.

In doing this, since the oh-so-grandiose title of &quot;theory&quot; so often
conveys the wrong impression, I hope that you will permit me to use
a motley assembly of more humble terms in its place, picking out the
roughly equivalent substitute that best fits the setting, the tone,
and the order of grandiloquence that has a chance of being revealed
in the offing, the outcome, or the upshot of the inquiry in question.
Among these proxies I will number the followin