Literary notes about Involve (AI summary)
The word "involve" functions as a versatile connector in literature, conveying not only simple participation but also a complex entanglement of actions, consequences, and ideas. In narrative contexts, it can denote compelling prerequisites or necessary conditions, as when a character’s actions lead inevitably to a situation that demands further engagement ([1], [2]). Philosophical and analytical texts extend its use to express essential properties or inherent contradictions, linking existence with essence or idea with observation ([3], [4], [5]). Moreover, whether applied to the dynamics of social relations, moral obligations, or the interplay of physical processes, "involve" enriches the text by suggesting that elements—be they emotions, actions, or natural processes—are invariably interdependent and mutually defining ([6], [7], [8]).
- “But this would seem to involve my meeting the man Thomson?” says he, when I had done.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson - O, Sir, shall I ever again involve myself in so foolish an embarrassment?
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney - [125] That would involve a contradiction.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant - If a thing can be conceived as non—existing, its essence does not involve existence. PROPOSITIONS.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza - For instance, the reason for the non—existence of a square circle is indicated in its nature, namely, because it would involve a contradiction.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza - Simple sensations involve judgments, as do the complex sensations which I call simple ideas.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau - ‘What, will he still persist, on death resolve, And in his ruin all his house involve!’
— from The Aeneid by Virgil - Both the prince and the philosopher choose, how ever to involve this eternal truth in artful and labored obscurity.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
