Literary notes about discrepancy (AI summary)
In literature, "discrepancy" is frequently employed to denote a divergence or inconsistency in accounts, interpretations, or details. Writers use it to highlight gaps in historical narratives, such as the absence of a central authority leading to divergent records as noted in [1], or to underline conflicts within sacred texts, as in the discussion of the Gospels in [2] and [3]. The term also appears in works addressing practical issues—whether in contrasting economic resources between nations, as in [4], or in noting variations between personal experiences and documented events, such as in [5]—thereby serving as a bridge between analytical rigor and narrative subtlety.
- The discrepancy doubtless arose from the fact that the part between the two latter rivers was a desert subject to no authority.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Saint the Venerable Bede - The apparent discrepancy of the Gospels.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal - The apparent discrepancy, if any, here arises simply from Matthew's brevity in omitting to state in full what his own narrative presupposes.
— from An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists, by the Rules of Evidence Administered in Courts of Justice With an Account of the Trial of Jesus by Simon Greenleaf - Even after the loss of Alsace-Lorraine there was no great discrepancy between the real resources of the two countries.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes - A fine discrepancy for you—a fine futility!"
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
