 This objection would fail if there were empirical indicators not just of which atomic states obtain, but also of which are the genuine ones, the ones that really carve reality at the joints. Obviously the framework would have to contain more than just \(h, m\) and \(a\). It would have to contain resources for describing the states that indicate whether these were genuine universals. Maybe whether they enter into genuine causal relations will be crucial, for example. Once we can distribute probabilities over the candidates for the real universals, then we can use those probabilities to weight the various possible distances which a hypothesis might be from any given theory.