"melon seeds". "what kind of melon"? "are they the same melon"? "why are they in 2 piles"? so this is when we begin to classify, organize, and verify the information about the seeds - how we do it depends on what we know when we begin. sometimes, the only way to know what a plant will be is to grow the seed; sometimes we have resources. the most important part of this identification process is to understand we are not understanding the seed - we are discussing the potential outcomes of what the seed does. the same with an idea. the value of an idea based on anything other than the quality of the idea and the potential for that idea to bloom into more - is not assessment of the idea. that is gambling on the idea maker, which is essentially, in gardening terms, questioning the natural laws of creation: will the seed be a plant based on what we know about what has been made in nature? uh.... probably, yeah....