Literary notes about consequently (AI summary)
The term "consequently" is frequently employed in literature to signal that one idea follows logically from its predecessor, indicating a clear cause-and-effect relationship. In works ranging from mathematical treatises to philosophical discourses, its use lends clarity to arguments—for instance, linking abstract reasoning with concrete conclusions [1, 2] and detailing precise calculations or outcomes [3, 4]. In narrative prose, the word helps to neatly transition between events or circumstances, as seen when it explains the natural progression of plot points or character fates [5, 6], while in historical and theoretical texts, it underlines the inevitability of certain results [7, 8]. Overall, "consequently" serves as a concise signal that what follows is not arbitrary but a necessary development from what has come before.
- Consequently we find here also a series of conditions and a progress to the unconditioned.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant - But this intuition must be found in the mind a priori, that is, before any perception of objects, consequently must be pure, not empirical, intuition.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant - Consequently the rectangle is really 9 1 / 7 in. by 7 in., so that the area is sixty-four square inches in either case.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney - Consequently, as twice 3 added to 4 produces a nought in our product, the first case is at once rejected.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney - We dined late, and consequently no supper was served.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova - I was consequently left alone with the children, and had a double portion of work to do.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie - The estate consequently devolved upon the present Sir Rawdon Crawley, Bart.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray - Corinth was a valuable strategic point for the enemy to hold, and consequently a valuable one for us to possess ourselves of.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. Grant
