Comment by samuell
2 years ago
There is even a lot of potential for communicating more effectively here:
By giving 2-3 examples, that describe the same thing from slightly different aspects, you can to some extent overcome the ambiguities of language, by letting the reader figure out the common denominator between those examples, which will be a lot less ambiguous that only telling it from one example.
Let me give you two examples more [...] ;)
(Related, this is a technique used extensively by writers like king Solomon in the book of Proverbs in the Bible.)
Giving a few good examples also has the benefit of demonstrating the author's own understanding. If the author can't describe the matter in different ways, it shows don't have a feel for "it", and they're not grasping it rightly or even touching it at all. I've found that audiences can sense when a speaker is out-of-touch, and will politely ignore them.
Separately, I've heard that the Nicene Creed and its ancillaries had the repetitions hardcoded to forestall natural schism/emergent mutations in the generational belief system.
And two of them should be the most obvious example you can think of, and the weirdest example you can think of.