This analysis separates three levels: a word's conventional relation to its assigned meaning, mental transition toward a component or concomitant, and the influence of custom and context on understanding. Keeping them distinct preserves the proper use of correspondence, inclusion, and implication.
Key conclusions:
The “insofar as” qualification resolves apparent overlap caused by multiple assignments.
Mental implication can reach concomitants by routes of different proximity and clarity.
Direct synonyms, nested components, and different degrees of inferential necessity are not identical phenomena.
Custom, contextual clues, and the hearer's knowledge can affect the evidentness of a relation.
The foundational discussion of dalālah now closes. The next printed heading, “taʿrīf al-majāz wa-l-kināyah”, will develop the transition from literal assigned meanings to intended concomitants in a new technical framework.