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And this is something the classical nominalist, whose basic ontology is more coarse-grained, has been accused of not being able to do (for a famous instance of this critique of classical nominalism, see Armstrong 1978).
A famous instance of this type of argument is the Cartesian argument for global skepticism, according to which the hypothesis that reality is more or less the way we customarily deem it to be is empirically equivalent to a variety of so-called skeptical hypotheses (such as that we are beguiled by an evil demon, or that we are brains in a vat, connected to a supercomputer).
A famous instance of someone being afflicted by tzara'at was Miriam in Numbers 12 1-12.
(See Monika Soćko rules appeal in 2008 and Women's World Chess Championship 2008 for a famous instance of this rule).
The most famous instance of a person being airlifted from the South Pole for medical reasons was that involving Jerri Nielsen FitzGerald, a doctor who treated herself for breast cancer for months while stationed at the American research station.
Arguably the most famous instance of this is when a gentleman called CavemanDJC ran a game called Tomba! 2, which is about a feral child killing pigs.
Following the relative freedom of the Renaissance period, expurgation of nude art became common, with a literal fig leaf often used to cover genitalia – arguably the most famous instance of which was the plaster leaf used to cover a reproduction of Michelangelo's David in London in the 1850s.
Perhaps the most famous instance of incumbent justices changing their mind on a high-profile issue occurred in the 1940s.
But it's hardly as unpredictable as Lautréaumont's famous instance of surrealist conjunction – "the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table".
The most famous instance of this came during the Gallipoli campaign, when on 17 December 1915, a game of cricket was played on Shell Green by ANZAC troops.
The undramatic, small-print language in which Lincoln offered the Emancipation Proclamation is the most famous instance of his mastery of anti-heroic rhetoric.
