Timeline for When to use indefinite article before "independence"?

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Jul 3, 2015 at 10:51	history	edited	Sankarane	CC BY-SA 3.0	added 186 characters in body
Jul 3, 2015 at 2:08	comment	added	choster		Yes, a dependence or an independence for that matter can refer to a type of example of them. The United States won independence from Britain, but it was an independence imperiled by domestic turmoil and economic crisis. In the first case, we are referring to the general concept of independence, but in the latter, we are singling out independence as experienced by the early U.S. against a theoretical vision of independence, or perhaps independence as experienced by other countries or at other times.
Jul 3, 2015 at 2:00	history	edited	Sankarane	CC BY-SA 3.0	deleted 104 characters in body
Jul 3, 2015 at 1:58	comment	added	Sankarane		Could we say then that a dependence = a kind of dependence?
Jul 3, 2015 at 1:49	comment	added	choster		In fact, many non-count nouns can be used as count nouns when referring to varieties or examples thereof, as FumbleFingers notes in a comment on the original question. As such, they may certainly take indefinite articles or other determiners used with count nouns (e.g. I wish you every happiness; He developed a dependence on codeine and a worse dependence on his parents; This paranoia would destroy her career, and later, her marriage).
Jul 3, 2015 at 0:11	history	answered	Sankarane	CC BY-SA 3.0