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The term "calculus" has been employed in literature to denote both precise mathematical disciplines and broader systems of methodical thought. In many excerpts, it explicitly refers to established branches of mathematics—for instance, integral and differential calculus are discussed rigorously in contexts like [1], [2], [3], and [4], while specialized forms such as the calculus of chances, probabilities, and differences appear in [5], [6], and [7]. Moreover, the word often takes on a metaphorical role, as seen in Santayana’s observation that thought is not merely a mechanical calculus [8] and Sidgwick’s critique of the "calculus of Egoistic Hedonism" [9]. This dual usage—both as a technical mathematical tool and as a symbol of calculated reasoning or even critique of reductionist thought—demonstrates the versatility of the term across a range of literary works. Additionally, there is even a playful or anatomical twist in its usage with a reference to a medical condition in [10].
  1. CONTINUATION OF THE INTEGRAL CALCULUS.
    — from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson
  2. INTEGRAL CALCULUS.
    — from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson
  3. DIFFERENTIAL CALCULUS.
    — from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson
  4. Certainly, one would think, a difficult task with a class of 170 freshmen in such work as the integral and differential calculus.
    — from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson
  5. General principles of the calculus of chances.
    — from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson
  6. Elements of the calculus of probabilities and social arithmetic.
    — from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson
  7. Calculus of Differences.
    — from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson
  8. Thought is not a mechanical calculus, where the elements and the method exhaust the fact.
    — from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana
  9. [200] A dubious guidance to an ignoble end appears to be all that the calculus of Egoistic Hedonism has to offer.
    — from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick
  10. The bladder contains a large calculus, i .
    — from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

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