Instances

Pull out the individual, actual cases and set them apart from the general category they belong to. A single case carries details that don't hold for the whole class, so treating one as the category itself quietly turns a one-off into a rule.

Pull out the individual, actual cases and set them apart from the general category they belong to. A single case carries details that don't hold for the whole class, so treating one as the category itself quietly turns a one-off into a rule.

Example

"Be a better parent" is the class. "The 20-minute bedtime talk with my daughter last Thursday" is an instance. Filed separately, you stop concluding from one good Thursday that parenting is solved, or from one bad one that you're failing.