Evaluators bestow value on objects on the basis of reasons, and thus in virtue of their rational capacity.
Thus, in virtue of its nature, the will is induced to seek the good proposed by the intellect, though it remains free in this quest even with regard to the supreme Good.
And thus not in virtue of the satisfaction of (ii*).
As we have noted, for the contemporary Bayesian, how it is reasonable to respond to a given body of evidence depends upon one's prior probability distribution: the two scientists might thus both be rational in virtue of possessing different prior probability distributions.
In both the material and the spiritual order, however, human beings participate in a 'common good.' Thus, one is an individual in virtue of being a material being; one is a person so far as one is capable of intellectual activity and freedom.
Thus, if the stick moves something in virtue of being moved by the hand, the hand moves the stick: and if something else moves with the hand, the hand also is moved by something different from itself.
He too argues that Larson and Ludlow's account fails when viewed as a part of the Davidsonian project of accounting for the meanings of sentences, and thus accounting for what speakers know in virtue of which they can understand arbitrary sentences with which they are competent, in terms of offering a Tarskian truth theory for the language.
Thus a tomato is red, not in virtue of exemplifying a universal, but by having a redness trope as one of its constituents (on one version of trope theory) or by being a substratum in which a redness trope inheres (on a second theory).
The existence of such an algorithm would thus run strongly counter to expectation in virtue of the extensive effort which has been devoted to finding efficient solutions for particular \ \textbf{NP}\ -complete problems such as \ \textbf{NP}\ -completeRAMMING}\) or \(\sc{TSproblems
Thus, for example, Bigelow finds the locution "in virtue of" both obscure and, as will see, avoidable "we should not rest content with an explanation which turns on the notion of virtue!" (Bigelow 1988).
It isn't so much that there is a particular kind of action that is intrinsically wrong; actions that are wrong are wrong simply in virtue of their effects, thus, instrumentally wrong.
