 Objection:  Reference (śakti = abhidhā) is alone sufficient (with no need to posit an additional mode of meaning), since the conventional practice that supports anyone's understanding meaning is common to both (what you call) primary and indicated senses. For, the words (that make up a sentence and statement) having been put together, an etymological analysis can inform us of the overall connection because śakti, the power of reference, has accomplished a setting in mind, or settings in mind, produced by the words. Otherwise, there could be neither testimony as a knowledge source nor speaker’s intention, since this power governs and regulates them both.