Literary notes about implications (AI summary)
In literature, the term "implications" is employed to suggest outcomes and underlying meanings that extend beyond the immediate context of words or events. It can denote concrete consequences—such as legal or political ramifications [1, 2]—yet it also captures more abstract, sometimes hidden, inferences that enrich a narrative or argument [3, 4]. Authors use the word to invite readers into a deeper exploration of both the overt and the subtle effects of a statement, idea, or situation, thereby linking factual observations with their broader, often unforeseen, consequences [5, 6, 7].
- But presently the caliphs became aware of liberalism's political implications.
— from The New World of Islam by Lothrop Stoddard - She was exclaiming over the legal implications of triplets.
— from 2 B R 0 2 B by Kurt Vonnegut - We shall call it "the facts" to emphasise its indubitable reality, and avoid, as far as possible, any other implications.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - It is the nature of an experience to have implications which go far beyond what is at first consciously noted in it.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey - [20-44] With the effect of a stone dropped into water, the implications of the anti-discrimination memorandum continued to ripple outward.
— from Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 by Morris J. MacGregor - And these uniformities prove to be so many necessary implications of that primordial truth which underlies all knowledge—the Persistence of Force.
— from First Principles by Herbert Spencer - Discuss the implications of this statement.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park
