Apūrva denotes, then, the temporally remote consequence of ritual acts what it is, in other words, in virtue of which a correctly performed Vedic rite can be judged efficacious, even in the absence of any immediately observed effect of the expected kind.
Consider, then, an act A that is performed at a possible world w and yields at w positive but low wellbeing levels for one or more people who will but do not yet exist at w. Suppose that wellbeing levels are low in virtue of the fact that act A performed at w causes those persons to endure pain, misery, disease, deprivation or limitation.
For Leibniz, vis viva is a force attributable to particular bodies in virtue of which they are able to perform work on other bodies — or as in the case of a pendulum — on themselves; he thus held the conservation of vis viva to be the most fundamental, overarching conservation law for the physical world.
If the members of a group perform a joint action together, then this is in virtue of each of them having a we-intention of the form given here; e.g., their joint action of going to the Taj Mahal is performed in virtue of each having the we-intention to go to the Taj Mahal.
In virtue of the clustered nature of the data, the bivariate analyses were performed using a maximum likelihood, multilevel (variance components) regression analysis (Table 1).
But the trouble is precisely that, in virtue of her psychological disability, she is incapable of having this desire, and so cannot perform this action intentionally.
In virtue of what, precisely, would you distinguish them aesthetically?
Then, in virtue of the continuity of, we see that.
or, in virtue of the definition of, (3.11).
