Literary notes about application (AI summary)
The term "application" in literature serves a wide range of purposes, embodying both formal and practical meanings. In some literary contexts, it is used to denote a formal request or submission—as when readers are invited to “send in your application” [1] or when candidates are required to submit applications for advancement or admission [2, 3]. In other works, its meaning shifts to the practical implementation of ideas: John Dewey, for instance, outlines “rational generalization; third, application and verification” as essential steps in the intellectual process [4, 5, 6]. Additionally, the word appears in more tangible contexts—referring to the physical act of applying heat or pressure [7, 8, 9]—as well as in metaphorical uses that emphasize mental effort or the direct impartment of a concept, such as in educational and philosophical discussions [10, 11, 12]. Thus, whether signaling bureaucratic procedures, the practical test of theoretical ideas, or the physical act of applying force or substance, "application" reveals itself in literature as a multifaceted term bridging abstract thought with concrete reality.
- “Send in your application to-morrow. . . .
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - On leaving the Polytechnic, the pupils enter the School of Application in Paris.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - He has to submit to a prescribed formula of application and entrance, long before he becomes a member of the Order.
— from The Principles of Masonic Law by Albert Gallatin Mackey - first, the apprehension of specific or particular facts; second, rational generalization; third, application and verification.
— from How We Think by John Dewey - And if the application of this remark is more obvious in the case of the teacher than of the pupil, it is equally real in the case of the latter.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey - It is the functioning of an abstraction in its application to a new concrete experience,—its extension to clarify and direct new situations.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey - Also, the maintenance of a high temperature by the direct application of heat has a deleterious effect upon the substances in solution.
— from All About Coffee by William H. Ukers - Point of application of the pressure in the five modes of possible rupture.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - Application to a breaching fire delivered in a regular direction relatively to the revetment.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - It is, as we have said, an application of the principle of local option.
— from Garden Cities of To-Morrow by Sir Ebenezer Howard - The Master said, 'Is it not pleasant to learn with a constant perseverance and application?
— from The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics) by Confucius - It is then called good sense or prudence, as in its other application it is better called acuteness, penetration, sagacity.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer
