Those two examples you just gave do a lot to clarify what you’re talking about!
A formative experience for me around examples was reading Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Judgment for an undergraduate philosophy class. Kant wrote this 450-page book that has received a lot of attention from scholars and students trying to understand what he was trying to say. This whole class was devoted just to this book. And yet, since Kant was apparently averse to giving examples — I’m not sure there’s a single example in the whole book — what he was trying to say might be forever lost.
Those two examples you just gave do a lot to clarify what you’re talking about!
A formative experience for me around examples was reading Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Judgment for an undergraduate philosophy class. Kant wrote this 450-page book that has received a lot of attention from scholars and students trying to understand what he was trying to say. This whole class was devoted just to this book. And yet, since Kant was apparently averse to giving examples — I’m not sure there’s a single example in the whole book — what he was trying to say might be forever lost.
Examples are fundamental!