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The word “enables” consistently functions as a linguistic bridge that links one element or quality to the realization of another, highlighting a process of facilitation across diverse contexts. It is employed to convey that a particular faculty, condition, or object confers upon its subject the capacity to achieve understanding, attain balance, or perform an action. In works of philosophy and literature, for instance, it is used to indicate that superior knowledge or reason enables deeper comprehension of abstract ideas ([1], [2], [3]), while in more practical narratives it illuminates how tangible objects such as a camera or a lantern enable clear perception or physical stability ([4], [5], [6]). Thus, whether it is applied to the realm of intellectual exploration or the mechanics of everyday actions, “enables” serves to underscore the empowering role of a catalyst in eliciting further effect or progress ([7], [8], [9]).
  1. We have perhaps arrived at the stage of philosophy which enables us to understand what he is aiming at, better than he did himself.
    — from The Republic of Plato by Plato
  2. The chief importance of knowledge by description is that it enables us to pass beyond the limits of our private experience.
    — from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
  3. Or is it not rather the very prerequisite which enables the artist to [Pg 80] accomplish something?...
    — from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist by Nietzsche
  4. It is the camera obscura which shows the objects more purely, and enables us to survey them and comprehend them better.
    — from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer
  5. The lantern is in front, and enables the benighted wanderer to see in the most profound obscurity.
    — from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne
  6. The ballast (usually sand) carried enables him to maintain a state of equilibrium between the upward pull of the gas and the downward pull of gravity.
    — from How it Works by Archibald Williams
  7. Superior knowledge enables us to deceive another by the help of resemblances, and to escape from such a deception when employed against ourselves.
    — from Phaedrus by Plato
  8. The great advantage of a plank-road is the large load it enables the horses to draw.
    — from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie
  9. The military art has been changed by the invention of gunpowder; which enables man to command the two most powerful agents of nature, air and fire.
    — from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

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