Sentence examples for merely in virtue of from inspiring English sources

Feldman's proposal is that there is some level of happiness that people deserve merely in virtue of being people.

Neither Eklund nor Sorensen conclude from this that nothing satisfies the predicates in question rather they conclude that some propositions that we find compelling merely in virtue of possessing the concepts from which they are constituted are false.

Although they are undoubtedly quasi-perceptual experiences (presumably, in the absence of an immaterial soul, we are to suppose that they are experienced merely in virtue of their occurring within the brain) they may not be mental pictures in any very robust sense.

Or to put the same point differently, a requirement to recognize some constraint that one should recognize merely in virtue of having competence with the appropriate terms cannot be explained by citing a fact which mere linguistic competence does not put one in a position to recognize.

Second, the proposal that a singular belief is justified merely in virtue of being a member of a justified totality can be questioned because, plausibly, a belief can be a member of a sufficiently coherent system without in any way adding to the coherence of that system.

Moreover, the intuition behind Feldman's explanation of the unacceptability of the Repugnant Conclusion that there is some level of welfare that people deserve merely in virtue of being people is compelling and probably widely shared and could give support to ideas such as the critical level view discussed above.

The apple is scarlet not in virtue of instantiating a universal but in virtue of possessing a scarlet trope.

It may be argued that such classificatory schemes are not merely descriptive but rather explanatory in virtue of "invoking" or "appealing to" causal information.

Not merely must truth obtain in virtue of word-to-world relations, but there must be a thing that makes each truth true.

They are certainly not straightforwardly empirical, for reasons just set out, and cannot be merely analytic (i.e., true in virtue of the definitions of their terms and of the laws of logic) if metaphysics is to retain any significance.

Or does a bicycle manage to be extended in time from t1 to t2 in virtue of being "wholly present" (as opposed to merely partly present) at each of those times?