Sorry, that was me being unclear! The situation I’m envisaging is:
We want more X.
We can’t detect X directly, so we’ll pick some marker for X that looks like X (that’s what I was going at with “formal”, “relating to the form of”), and then aim for that.
Oops our markers don’t capture X, or even exclude some important bits of X.
Sorry, that was me being unclear! The situation I’m envisaging is:
We want more X.
We can’t detect X directly, so we’ll pick some marker for X that looks like X (that’s what I was going at with “formal”, “relating to the form of”), and then aim for that.
Oops our markers don’t capture X, or even exclude some important bits of X.