Sentence examples for exists by virtue of from inspiring English sources

Rather possession of the function exists by virtue of the collective character of the imposition (Searle 1995: 39).

So being a chair is not an institutional fact; rather its functionality exists by virtue of its specific physical properties.

One kind of long-lasting material reality exists by virtue of constant turnover in its constituent matter.

On the other hand, being a medium of exchange is an institutional fact; its functionality supposedly exists by virtue of collective imposition rather than specific physical properties.

That is to say, d ( x n, F ) ≤ d ( x n − 1, F ) shows that lim n → ∞ d ( x n, F ) exists by virtue of Lemma 1.1.

These occurrences give only a very broad notion of sabhāva as the nature of clusters of dhamma, but it is by no means clear that a dhamma exists by virtue of this nature or that it necessarily defines what a dhamma is.

Hence, if one were to compare two beings, both equally great in all respects except that one exists and one does not, the one that does not exist, by virtue of its non-existence, is lacking a predicate that contributes to the greatness of the other.

In Wolff's system, the accidents of substance are the properties that exist by virtue of a thing's essentials.

Second, by stating that "it does not exist by virtue of its intrinsic objective reality" (svarūpatā / bdag gi ngo bo nyid), he means ultimate truth is not intrinsically real just as much as conventional truth is not intrinsically real.

In addition Candrakīrti argues that if things were intrinsically real, conventionally, as the Svātantrikas take them to be, in Candrakīrti's view, things would exist by virtue of their intrinsic reality, at least conventionally.

But it does not exist by virtue of its intrinsic objective reality (svarūpatā / bdag gi ngo bo nyid)." (MBh 6.23 Dbu ma 'a 253a) Of the two natures, the object of the perception of reality is the way things really are, and this is, Candrakīrti explains, what it means to be the ultimate truth (MBh 6.23 Dbu ma 'a 253ab).