Literary notes about requirements (AI summary)
The term "requirements" in literature is used in a multifaceted way that encompasses both tangible necessities and abstract obligations. In historical and military contexts, for instance, it refers to the practical needs or conditions of battle and strategy, as when Lee and Jackson understand fully the requirements of combat ([1]). In moral and social discourse, the word highlights the duties and expectations intrinsic to human life—ranging from the responsibilities of daily living and individual nature ([2], [3]), to the demands of civic and institutional life, such as the requirements for citizenship or membership in a community ([4], [5]). At times, the term also captures technical or artistic specifications, like meeting the precise memory needs in computing or the formal criteria laid down for clear, effective communication ([6], [7]). Even in philosophical debates, requirements serve as guiding principles for logic, virtue, and aesthetics ([8], [9]), demonstrating its broad application as both a marker of essential conditions and a reflection of deeper societal and individual ideals.
- Lee and Jackson appear to have realised the requirements of battle far more fully than their opponents.
— from Aesop's Fables by Aesop - Life, however, was yet in my possession, with all its requirements, and pains, and responsibilities.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë - She came to it as an original proposition founded on the requirements of her own nature.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner - There were men in Georgetown who filled all the requirements for membership in these churches.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. Grant - State the principal citizenship requirements of an elector in his state.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook by Boy Scouts of America - Bootable Directly Media no title memory requirements Memory and Disk Space
— from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain - This book aims to give in brief space the principal requirements of plain English style.
— from The Elements of Style by William Strunk - Without such antecedent necessary problems there are no requirements- at least not of pure reason- the rest are requirements of inclination.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant - The perplexity should not be forgotten by us when we attempt to submit the Phaedo of Plato to the requirements of logic.
— from Phaedo by Plato
