from the work of Amos Wilder, Paul Riceour, and Phillip Wheelwright, famously distinguishes between steno-symbols and tensive symbols. With a steno-symbol, essentially the concept relates directly to its referent. But a tensive symbol has a “set of meanings that can neither be exhausted nor adequately expressed by any one referent.”8 A tensive symbol, then, becomes a headword for a complex of interrelated ideas; naturally, then, the symbol can appear somewhat amorphous and difficult to define. This