Sentence examples for is in virtue from inspiring English sources

"The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance" is something this Prospero feels in his bones, no matter how often euphoria or anger distract or confuse him — he doesn't really require his daughter Miranda or his beloved fairy Ariel to pull him back from the brink of destruction.

A particular, x, is what it is in virtue of Partaking.

This suggests that the judgment is in virtue of a common measure.

It is in virtue of this capacity that we reason and act for reasons.

The representationalist's answer is, in virtue of representing that quality in a distinctive way.

It is in virtue of their individuality that human beings have obligations to the social order, but it is in virtue of their personality that they cannot be subordinated to that order.

Members of a society are, in virtue of birth, included as members of the worshipping community (e.g., the Lutheran churches of Scandinavia) or at least potential members.

Rather, it's in virtue of her being the same human animal that we do so.

Something cannot be barely beautiful; if something is beautiful then it must be in virtue of its nonaesthetic properties.

In the philosophy of action we ask what the facts are in virtue of which a given piece of behavior is an intentional action; in questions about personal identity we ask what the facts are in virtue of which x and y are the same person; in ethics we ask what the facts are in virtue of which a given action is morally right or wrong.

Furthermore, those who held this view generally held that it was in virtue of divine concurrence that God makes the proposition true in the actual world.