It's a study of how something can be consistent and ever-changing at the same time, as the same tape loop is always processing, but never quite unfolding the same way.
But he then saw that he had a tool for the objective study of something even more interesting: how animals learn.
In 1957, The New Yorker ran a landmark article about the study (aptly titled "The Study of Something New in History"), by Eugene Kinkead, which explored in-depth and for the first time the various methods of indoctrination to which American prisoners may have been subjected while in captivity.
Again, he was quoting someone else - in fact, an ancient German academic joke - about the existence of both Catholic and Protestant faculties of theology at several German universities, which thus, the joke went, are unique in having two departments devoted to the study of something that doesn't exist at all.
It is to Tylor more than anyone else that we owe the idea that anthropology is the study of something called "culture", which he defined as "that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, arts, morals, law, customs, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society".
Metaphysics is thus not the study of something apart from experience, but rather merely of the limits (Ideas) of experience itself".
As with the point about passion above, you don't devote years of your life to the study of something you dismiss easily.
The suffixes log, logo, and ology suggest the study of something.
I made something of a study of these songs, while you were away in Beijing.
Thomas also made something of a study of press reactions to his confirmation hearings.
Mr. Gabis, who has helped with dialects heard in a host of stage, television and film productions, including that of a British acting android in the current hit "Comic Potential," has made something of a study of New Jersey accents.
