How to Write Better Essays

orders. Whereas the art collector has earned the right through many

years of study, and police officers, while not having earned the same

respect for themselves as a person, have been given the ‘rightful’,

legitimate authority by our elected representatives.

In the next chapter

Some people find this sort of exercise easy to do. If, however, you’ve

found it particularly difficult, don’t despair. It is a lot simpler than it

appears. Over the next three chapters you will learn a simple three-

step technique for analysing the most difficult concept.

Note

1 Those who want to read more about open and closed concepts should

read Leon J. Goldstein’s paper ‘Reflections on Conceptual Openness and

Conceptual Tension’, in F. D’Agustino and I. C. Jarvie (eds), Freedom and

Rationality: Essays in Honour of John Watkins(London: Kluwer Academic,

1989), pp. 87–110.

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