The phrase "are we thereby" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to inquire about the implications or consequences of a previous statement or action.
Example: "If we change the policy, are we thereby acknowledging that the previous approach was flawed?"
Alternatives: "does this mean" or "are we thus".
As significant mitochondrial function loss was induced by t-BHP, whereas mitochondrial content was not affected, we thereby assumed that mitochondrial morphology change might be the major contributor of mitochondrial dysfunction.
Recruitment continued until no further themes concerning gender similarities or differences were identified and we thereby considered our material to be saturated.
While he admits that we may "test" general moral principles against our intuitions regarding particular actual and hypothetical situations, he argues that we are not thereby testing our moral theories or principles against the world.
By engaging in practical ethics via reflective equilibrium of any sort, we are already thereby engaging in a form of ethical theorizing, albeit perhaps at a lower level of abstraction than traditional high theory.
Insofar as there is a causal connection between the propositional attitudes we adopt, and the beliefs that are thereby generated, we can be said to have exercised indirect, or roundabout, control over belief-formation.
The simstim is a device for the novelist too, of course, for we are thereby given access to another character's experiences.
What's remarkable is not that the film survived the travesty but that its portrait of restlessness and rebellion endures to this day, and we are thereby led toward one of the many mysteries of Bergman.
We might find intelligible the metaphor that such products "hold up a mirror to society" within which "the society can regard itself", without thinking we are thereby committed to some supra-individual unitary mind achieving self-consciousness.
We are thereby led to a place where noises, distractions, and false importance of the street, of our dissipated lives -- finally "have no access -- a place where they have no power".
We are thereby able to show the influence of the endogenous opioid system and the direction of activation in the pregenual ACC due to increasing thermal intensity.
