Along the way he invented a new concept: the essay that wasn't designed to show the reader what a master of close reasoning the writer was but to test an idea, to elaborate on an abstraction, by seeing how it worked in his reality, using whatever came to hand and mind.
Simon Rich, a humor writer, took up this concept in an essay he wrote called, "The only e-mails I could receive that could justify the frequency with which I check my e-mail," in his book "Free-Range Chickens" (Random House, 2008).
When the Russian formalist critic Viktor Shklovsky laid out this concept in his essay "Art as Technique," he defined defamiliarization as a poetic approach to presenting the habitual as though it were being encountered for the first time — as a way of burrowing beneath not only the clichés of saying but also those of seeing.
We need not discuss Frege's reasons for this in this entry, though interested readers may consult his 1892 essay "Concept and Object". is justified by λ-Abstraction.
Kass built on that concept in his essay to say instinctual repugnance might correctly lead us to reject technologies that defy the "central core of our humanity," citing human reproductive cloning as the quintessential example.
Every chapter of "Are You My Mother?" relates to a concept from his essays on the mother-child bond.
The authors jointly conceived the concepts in this essay.
When individual concepts were compared, many significant differences were found, and in all cases in which a significant difference was found, the cooperative group section had a higher proportion of students including these key concepts in their essay answers.
One of us (Haslam) recently published an essay titled "Concept creep: Psychology's expanding concepts of harm and pathology".
As Andrew O'Hagan points out in his essay, the concept of "fine," or perhaps "good enough," has been lost in an age of "awesome" superlatives and extreme travel.
