Sentence examples for valid in virtue of from inspiring English sources

Effectively, formal consequences immediately valid in virtue of extrinsic middles satisfy the (ST) criterion of being valid 'in all matter', but the same does not hold of Ockham's (enthymematic) consequences valid in virtue of an intrinsic middle.

But it is relatively common for logicians to claim that the logical principles that they endorse are valid in virtue of the meanings of the connectives involved.

In this operation, the principles (and the further norms that they determine) are valid in virtue of the relation of justification they bear to the original norms.

There is, however, a fundamental difference; nowhere does Buridan suggest that formal consequences are valid in virtue of their form, as Abelard had claimed for the 'complexio' of perfect inferences.

Nevertheless, Kant regards the synthetic a posteriori law of universal gravitation as "necessary and universally valid" in virtue of the way in which it is "determined" in relation to the "phenomena" by the synthetic a priori laws of pure natural science.

It is fair to say that approach 3 became predominant in the 14th century, the golden age of medieval theories of consequence; but the earlier Boethian view that all valid arguments (including syllogistic arguments) are valid in virtue of topical rules can also be seen as belonging to category 3.

We here have the notion of 'valid in virtue of form' (as with Abelard's 'complexio'), and the association of form and formality with the idea of substitution of terms (ST).

That Welo had a valid existing right in virtue of his preliminary entry must be conceded.

If the statute now under review can be sustained as valid, it must be in virtue of the doctrine laid down in the third paragraph, and it will aid in the effort to reach a correct conclusion in that respect if we shall first consider the principal decisions of this court where that doctrine has been applied.

However, it is worth emphasizing once again that drawing the line between the form and the matter of an argument/consequence in this manner still does not entail the thesis that the form is that in virtue of which a valid argument is valid; nor does it entail the thesis that only the arguments/consequences satisfying the substitutional criterion are indeed valid.

On this view, objective empirical judgments (i.e., empirical judgments which purport to refer to objects rather than merely subjective seemings or connections of sense impressions, and which purport to be universally valid for all judging subjects) are endowed with their objectivity and generality in virtue of the a priori concepts embodied in the relevant forms of judgment.