Literary notes about Requisite (AI summary)
Literary authors employ "requisite" as a precise qualifier to denote an indispensable element or condition. In political and philosophical discourse, the word underscores necessary qualities or qualifications essential for effective governance and sound reasoning, as seen when it is invoked to describe the essential distribution of state power [1] or the indispensable conditions underpinning moral and theoretical frameworks [2, 3, 4]. Meanwhile, in technical and practical contexts, "requisite" marks the necessary ingredients for completing a procedure, whether specifying the precise number of threads needed for a craft [5] or the critical certification required to secure a right [6]. Even in more narrative or poetic texts, it functions to accentuate that only by meeting specific essential criteria can an outcome be achieved, as in the emphasis on qualifications for success or the necessary measures in diplomatic undertakings [7, 8, 9].
- These inventions of prudence cannot be less requisite in the distribution of the supreme powers of the State.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton and John Jay and James Madison - Such qualities must be somewhat beyond what is merely requisite for producing the effect, which we examine.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume - Every part is requisite to explain, from analogy, the more steady conception; and nothing remains capable of producing any distinct impression.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume - A virtuous motive is requisite to render an action virtuous.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume - knotting on the requisite number of threads on to a double cord, make two buttonhole loops with the right thread round the left one, fig.
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll - The first requisite was a certificate from the Bishop of Civita Vecchia, stating that the man was free to marry.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova - The consul gave me the requisite information, and my impression was that my efforts would be in vain; however, I resolved to make the attempt.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova - He executed the requisite document in the presence of two witnesses, and I sent it to Chamberi by an express messenger.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova - But in order to accomplish a purpose, definite rules from which we cannot dispense ourselves are requisite.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant
