corollary

plural corollaries

1. A gift beyond what is actually due; an addition or superfluity.
2. An a fortiori occurrence, as a result of another effort without significant additional effort.

   Finally getting that cracked window fixed was a nice corollary of redoing the whole storefront.

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   […] he was indeed of the opinion that the spontaneous uprising of the working class would come to nothing unless the party was there to give it shape and direction. This was an obvious corollary of the party's role as the only possible vehicle of socialist consciousness.

   1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 396

   Amidst the lingering consequences of what was probably a lab made pandemic, heightened political turmoil in a world of nuclear weapons, and, as mankind’s first synthetic mind comes closer by the day to waking up, the unknowable implications of general artificial intelligence, the truth is we are clearly at risk of cataclysm. But that is the corollary of life in an age of wonder, a precious gift impossible without the natural dangers inherent of^([sic]) tremendous progress. In other words: yes, we are at risk of the apocalypse, and that is good.

   2024 February 28, Mike Solana, “Hereticon: Apocalypse Ball”, in Founders Fund

3. human sciencesA proposition which follows easily from the statement or proof of another proposition.

   Near-synonym: concomitant

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   We have proven that this set is finite and well ordered; as a corollary, we now know that there is an order-preserving map from it to the natural numbers.

   Synonyms: concomitant

   1. metaphoricalhuman sciencesA product or byproduct of an assertion following easily from another stated or proven assertion.

      One could say artificial intelligence is a corollary of humans; it was made by humans, it was trained on human products, and it was made for humans.

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      [In disclaimer:] This is a work of fiction. No places are real places. No animals are real animals. And, most crucially, no animals symbolize people. It is a tendency of the human species to see themselves in everything, to assume all living things, animals in particular, are simply corollaries to humans, but in this book, that is not the case. Here, the dogs are dogs, the birds are birds, goats are goats, the Bison Bison.

      2023, Dave Eggers, illustrated by Shawn Harris, The Eyes and the Impossible, page 7

      Synonyms: concomitant

1. not comparableOccurring as a natural consequence or result; attendant; consequential.

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   However, given current sensibilities about individual privacy and data protection, the recording of oral data is becoming increasingly onerous for researchers who are obliged to navigate an often time-consuming and complex series of administrative requirements and corollary review processes in order to be granted ethics clearance.

   2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 11

2. not comparablerareForming a proposition that follows from one already proved.