Literary notes about aggregate (AI summary)
The word aggregate functions as a versatile term in literature, capturing both quantitative collections and qualitative totalities. It may refer to a total sum or mass—as when describing the body of believers as a unified whole [1] or when quantifying economic values and diminished distances [2], [3]—while simultaneously serving as a metaphor for the fusion of disparate individual qualities into a cohesive entity [4], [5]. In philosophical and scientific texts, aggregate emphasizes the synthesis of numerous parts into a principled whole, whether in discussions of social phenomena or psychological impressions [6], [7], [8]. Its usage spans a spectrum from concrete measurements, such as the cumulative tonnage of ships [9] and monetary figures [10], to abstract notions of comprehensive existence or character [11], [12], underscoring its capacity to bridge the material and the conceptual within diverse literary and academic genres.
- the aggregate body of believers, the body of the church, Ro. 12.5.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield - What, on the above basis of claims, would the aggregate demand amount to?
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes - These shortened the river, in the aggregate, seventy-seven miles.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain - That is to say, he aims at producing not merely a happy aggregate, but an aggregate of happy individuals.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle - The ingredients of happiness are very various, and each of them is desirable in itself, and not merely when considered as swelling an aggregate.
— from Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill - In the one (the individual), consciousness is concentrated in a small part of the aggregate.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park - At most such impressions fuse with their consorts into an aggregate effect.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James - Without systematic unity, our knowledge cannot become science; it will be an aggregate, and not a system.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant - The British mercantile vessels lost by enemy action, excluding fishing vessels, numbered 2479, with an aggregate of 7,759,090 tons gross.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes - The aggregate value involved is not likely, however, to be less than $500,000,000 or greater than $750,000,000.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes - For the existence of an aggregate cannot be necessary, if no single part of it possesses necessary existence.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant - For the humanity which Kant maintains to be an end in itself is Man (or the aggregate of men) in so far as rational .
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick
