Which preposition to use with applicability
Even more obscure is its applicability to Hawes's subject.
Led by various theoretical considerations which I cannot now discuss, but which looked promising enough in the lights of their time, Buffon and Needham doubted the applicability of Redi's hypothesis to the infusorial animalcules, and Needham very properly endeavoured to put the question to an experimental test.
In themselves the pure concepts relate to all that is thinkable, not merely to that which can be experienced, but the schemata, which assures their applicability in the field of experience, at the same time limit them to this sphere.
No rule or principle of construction can ever have any applicability beyond the limits, or contrary to the order, of this relation.