A first approach to address this question attempted by Franco Moretti, who introduced operationalization to the discourse of the digital humanities with his seminal paper “Operationalizing or, the Function of Measurement in Modern Literary Theory” (Moretti 2013). In this paper, Moretti goes back to Bridgman’s ([1927] 1958) original conception of operationalization and applies it to literary concepts. His answer to question Q’ famously is: