In response, some folk back into the weak form of the argument. The weak form is what you get when you hear someone say “history doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes” — that is, perhaps the lessons of history are too specific to a particular context to generalise, but that some … similarity is consistent over time

Well, it seems you're drawing on the same argument that has already been addressed (or at least mentioned in passing) in the article.

So ... pop quiz: how is reading for concept instantiations different from reading for patterns?