Literary notes about Incidence (AI summary)
The term "incidence" has been employed across a diverse range of contexts in literature, illustrating its versatile semantic scope. For instance, in technical and scientific writing, the word is used to describe physical phenomena, such as the "angle of incidence" [1] in geometry and the manner in which light interacts with media in optical studies [2]. In economic and policy contexts, "incidence" appears in discussions of tax burden, where it is linked to pecuniary loss, reflecting its application in financial discourse [3]. Additionally, in horticultural research, it quantifies outcomes like plant death rates, demonstrating its use in empirical data analysis [4]. Beyond these more concrete contexts, the term also ventures into abstract philosophical territory, referring to the realization of potential existence—a conceptual leap found in epistemological debates [5].
- This angle is known as the 'angle of incidence'.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide by Various - Reflection from transparent media polarizes the light partially or wholly according to the incidence.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - [138] which will involve him in far greater pecuniary loss than any change in the incidence of taxation is likely to inflict.
— from Garden Cities of To-Morrow by Sir Ebenezer Howard - b. Cuttings made from the basal and intermediary sections of long shoots show a greater death incidence than do well-hardened, terminal sections.
— from Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting - Its eternity, and the infinitude of propositions it contains, remain potential and unapproachable until their incidence is found in existence.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana
