Indeed, work by the American population geneticist Sewall Wright (1889 1989) has shown that, in small populations, the less fit might be more successful than the more fit, even to the extent of replacing the more fit entirely, owing to random but relatively significant changes in the gene pool, a phenomenon known as genetic drift.
To the 'single-case' objection often credited to Hume, that the design argument is not cogent since this is the only universe of which we are aware, Reid replies that the objection "is build on the supposition, that our inferring design from the strongest marks of it, is entirely owing to our past experience of having always found these two things conjoined" (EIP 6.6, 511).
Eye-popping moves like these are almost entirely owing to the tiny supply of shares in new companies, balanced -- or perhaps imbalanced -- against the titanic demand for them.
This was almost entirely owing to the number of views that the goofy thirty-second video had on YouTube, as well as to all the response videos and their views, which Billboard also counts.
In France things are marginally better, but that's almost entirely owing to the country's huge Muslim minority, now making up about 10% of the population.
Caloric figures in Lavoisier's list of elements as the "element of heat or fire" (Lavoisier 1789, p. 175), "becom[ing] fixed in bodies … [and] act[ing] upon them with a repulsive force, from which, or from its accumulation in bodies to a greater or lesser degree, the transformation of solids into fluids, and of fluids to aeriform elasticity, is entirely owing" (1789, p. 183).
But violent crime in the northern triangle is not entirely owed to drug trafficking.
(Nor was I entirely fresh myself, owing to Beth's rule of two baths a week).
Natural evil, by contrast, is owing entirely to the operation of natural causes.
You'll recall that I spent much of the winter pretending to be Napoleon Bonaparte, owing entirely to the really, really good Napoleon: Total War.
