All mental reference that purports to refer to something does indeed succeed in effecting such reference, although it may be a merely-hypothetical something that is at issue, a possibilium that merely quasi-exists.

He struck me as schemey and oleaginous from the first time I saw him, long before his disgraceful performances around the Iraq war.

We say that an angle is convex if it is not reflex.

He leaned into the electric gunsight, aiming the Mossie at the left wingroot between engine and fuselage, where he knew there were fuel tanks — his right thumb mashed the control-column firing button.