Literary notes about correlation (AI summary)
The term "correlation" has been employed in literature to signify the inherent linkage between distinct entities and phenomena across varied contexts. Early literary works, such as Aesop's fables, used the term to depict natural laws connecting variations or events [1][2], while Darwin extended its application to explain the appearance and functioning of inherited traits [3][4]. Philosophical texts like Rousseau's and Plato's works have incorporated correlation to denote the interdependence of ideas and the structuring of knowledge [5][6][7]. Additionally, the concept has proven versatile in more practical realms—connecting modifications in structures unintentionally linked [8], clarifying relationships in grammar [9], and even balancing risk and profit in economic discussions [10]. Other authors have drawn on correlation to illustrate complex interactions in both natural sciences and social phenomena, emphasizing its role as a foundational principle in understanding the relations among various parts of a whole [11][12][13][14][15][16][17].
- Many variations, however, are from the first connected by the law of correlation.
— from The Fables of Aesop by Aesop - Of all the laws governing variability, that of correlation is one of the most important.
— from The Fables of Aesop by Aesop - We shall presently see that simple inheritance often gives the false appearance of correlation.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin - CORRELATION.—The normal coincidence of one phenomenon, character, etc., with another.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin - The word “friend” has no other correlation.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau - At twenty years of age the disciples will begin to be taught the correlation of the sciences.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato - 533 ; correlation of, ib.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato - When he has produced any modification in an important part, he has generally done so unintentionally, in correlation with some other conspicuous part.
— from The Fables of Aesop by Aesop - The forms of the subjunctive are studied in correlation with the subjunctive constructions.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. D'Ooge - Financial morality consists in the correlation of risk and profit.
— from The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl - It will further be seen that certain variations are bound together by correlation as well as by other laws.
— from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass - In view of the close correlation of the muscular and nervous systems, this also made great advance in structure and function.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget - "Consciousness is only possible under the antithesis of a subject and object of thought known only in correlation, and mutually limiting each other."
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jesse Henry Jones - The course of historic development is a result of the correlation of the two tendencies, and they must be carefully distinguished.
— from The Fables of Aesop by Aesop - Define correlation.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie and J. Berg Esenwein - It is equally valuable for showing a thing in its relation to other things, or in correlation.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by Dale Carnegie and J. Berg Esenwein - A most interesting symptom of this correlation was presented by the boycotting of the Berlin breweries by the labor body in the year 1894.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park
