Word origin · etymology
Descriptive participial phrase.
Applying uses apply in the older sense of drawing toward or bringing together; the aspect is moving toward exactness.
How we know · epistemology
Local motion test
Relative motion shows whether a contact is approaching exactness at that instant. A later station or change of direction can interrupt it, so application alone does not establish future completion.
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