Sentence examples for virtue of itself from inspiring English sources

7.By "intrinsic property" I mean, following standard usage, a property that an object has "simply in virtue of itself".

It is in fact "evident" (ẓāhir: Ilāhiyyāt, I, 6, 38, 1) that the necessary has no cause: to have a cause means to exist by virtue of something else, and what exists by virtue of itself cannot exist by virtue of another, nor can it exist by virtue of itself and at the same time not exist by virtue of itself.

The third proof advances via "the possible and the necessary": It establishes the existence of something necessary in virtue of itself.

The inference from 'Socrates is a man' to 'Socrates is mortal' is mediated, on this view, by the major premise 'Man is mortal' which establishes a real necessary connection between the minor premise and the conclusion by virtue of itself recording a necessary connection among the attributes connoted by the terms which it contains.

They presented a more convincing picture of virtue than virtue presented of itself — just as the wax rosebud or the plastic peach seemed more perfect to the eye, more what the mind thought a rosebud or a peach should be than the imperfect or original from which it had been modeled.' That, to me, explains John Meehan".

Mujica projected, from his presidential perch, the wildly innocent virtue of Uruguay itself -- and magnified it.

I had wanted an adventure, to look out from the top of a mountain and marvel at the virtue of travel itself, knowing that just yesterday I had sat for eight consecutive hours in a windowless office.

Most importantly, however, the recent obesity epidemic in China not only bodes ominously for increased risk of chronic disease by virtue of adiposity itself, but also predicts a rising tide of even greater adverse compounding risk from a high-glycemic diet.

But the main work of politics is not to produce virtue, and personal virtue does not of itself produce good politics.

Why isn't there more music performed at the Proms that makes a virtue of the building itself?

On the Avengers, it has the virtue of not taking itself seriously, which tends to disarm criticism.