In Figures in Flight, 14-year-old Liam Appelson made an immediate impression by virtue not just of his coolly focused absorption, but also by the detail with which every part of his body, not least his feet, made his steps as real as possible.
"In addition, the company confirms that Mash has agreed the immediate withdrawal, by virtue of the withdrawal letter, of the notice served by Mash on the company on 7 October 2014 requiring the company to convene a general meeting of the shareholders of the company to put resolutions to such shareholders for the removal of Mr Graham Wallace and Mr Philip Nash as directors of the company".
We would know where we were and what we needed to do by virtue of immediate feedback through the learning process.
Against rationalism about beauty, the eighteenth-century theory of taste held the judgment of beauty to be immediate; against egoism about virtue, it held the pleasure of beauty to be disinterested.
These whites, intended for immediate use, display their virtues best when chilled only lightly.
Its virtues are immediate drinkability, an amiably grapey mouth-filling character, a softness and a meatiness, but the wine lacks definition and is on the dull side.
And, of course, if both beliefs were very close to being sufficiently warranted just in virtue of their immediate warrant, and each transferred enough warrant to the other, then it will happen that each becomes sufficiently warranted in virtue of the partial mutual basing described above — together, of course, with the independent warrant the belief enjoyed since the beginning of our story.
In our example of partial mutual basing, then, both beliefs will become sufficiently warranted, because they were almost so just in virtue of their immediate warrant, and each received enough transferred warrant from the other to make up the difference without losing the warrant it transferred to the other.
This formula is an immediate consequence of (1) in virtue of Axiom I.
