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The phrase "an instructive observation was" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when introducing a statement or finding that provides valuable insight or information.
Example: "In the course of our research, an instructive observation was made regarding the impact of climate change on local ecosystems."
Alternatives: "a valuable insight was" or "a noteworthy finding was".
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From a logical vantage point, an instructive observation was offered by the Dutch logician-philosopher Evert W. Beth in 1955 and independently (in a slightly different form) by the Finnish philosopher Jaakko Hintikka.
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The exchange cited in Christopher Caldwell's article (and elsewhere) between the candidates Ron Paul and Rudolph Giuliani at the South Carolina debate is instructive: Paul's accurate observation was apparently trumped by Giuliani's showmanship (July 22).
But just that observation is instructive because of what we have learnt in the past two weeks.
Several instructive observations can be made about the medieval insolubilia-literature.
It's a wonderfully instructive observation.
If you want to re-examine that period of time for insight into the here and now, I'd say this illumination of the basic character of the members of the Democratic Party is a far more instructive observation to poach from that era.
Gladwell's observations are instructive, but I'm not sure they take into account the full range of economic forces at work.
Observations were done at least six times a year, and new teachers were critiqued rigorously, yet the feedback received was reasonable, instructive and intended to help us develop the skills necessary to thrive in an inner-city school.
Although it does not necessarily show how monocots evolved from dicots, our observations can be instructive to understand how a one-cotyledon phenotype could be established.
It was an instructive start.
It was an instructive exercise, and even a little cheering.
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