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One is that this is just another instance of something that has been seen repeatedly in the weeks since Donald Trump took office: the Republicans' floppy pose of deference to Trump.
That he took the cathedral's towers as his instance of something permanently entrenched, impossible to remove, is just one indication of how central the Paris cathedral is to the French imagination.
What we are actually dealing with is a specific instance of something far older and even unchanging - western culture's belief that visual art has an ability and obligation to provide it with new experiences and knowledge.
"This is an incredible instance of something that happens online, happens via the online transfer of information, and maybe it never got offline," said Lisa Lynch, an assistant professor of journalism at Concordia University in Montreal, who has been studying Wikileaks almost since its creation in 2006.
When you own Van Gogh's Sunflowers you own the unique thing (even if it is fading a lot faster than some cheap copies), but a copy of the Folio is just one instance of something that was mass-produced in the first place, and which has at best an ambiguous relationship to any imagined unique holograph.
The issue here is an instance of something more general.
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These are traditionally figural, but there are also fine instances of something far less representational.
The more instances of something we encounter, the more significant we naturally assume it to be – and though we encounter our own solitude frequently, we never encounter other people's.
Professor Burger, who also teaches a course in comedy writing, also noted the "rule of three" in structuring jokes: two instances of something similar to set up a pattern, followed by a subversive surprise ("For God, for country and for Yale," for instance).
By this he means inferences from descriptions of particular instances of something to descriptions of that general kind of thing.
It's one of those instances of something being so well documented that one has to question whether we have become desensitised to the severity of the situation due to oversaturation. .
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