"**DM** from _dignum memoria_ ("worth remembering"), or a [symbol of a little hand](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_(typography) "Index (typography)") (☞), called a manicule or index, with the index finger pointing towards the beginning of the significant passage." wiki [[Nota bene]] [[E Pointing]], [[Vantagepointillism]], [[Relation]], [[Intersubjectivity]] _______________________ [[Ray Brassier]] in [[Concepts and Objects]]: "4. We gain access to the structure of reality via a machinery of conception which extracts intelligible indices from a world that is not designed to be intelligible and is not originarily infused with meaning. [[Meaning]] is a [[Function]] of conception and conception involves representation—though this is not to say that conceptual representation can be construed in terms of word-world mappings. It falls to conceptual rationality to forge the explanatory bridge from thought to being." (p. 1) [[Index]]