This division depends upon whether sign-vehicles signify in virtue of qualities, existential facts, or conventions and laws.
Any proposition that is about Paul indirectly, in virtue of qualities that he contingently instantiates, will be subject to a similar argument.
Just as Peirce thought signs could be classified according to whether their sign-vehicles function in virtue of qualities, existential facts, or conventions and laws, he thought signs were similarly classifiable according to how their object functioned in signification.
Tell me: How did it come to pass that virtue — a quality that for most of history has generally been deemed, well, a virtue — became a mark of liberal softheadedness?
Among the three elements of paternalistic leadership, moral leadership is characterized by leaders' superior personal virtues or qualities.
"I hope you recover quickly and return to the game soon, so we can all support a sport full of the virtues and qualities that I've tried to follow in my 12 years as a professional player".
Four of the dialogues in this group are concerned with definition of virtues or good qualities, especially virtues: Euthyphro (piety or reverence), Laches (courage), Charmides (temperance or soundness of mind), and Hippias Major (the fine or beautiful).
Long before the heyday of coffee bars in the United States, I and others lucky enough to visit Colombia learned the virtues of quality coffee.
That's why, where there's already quality, quantity is a virtue in itself: quality isn't static, it's a function defined by change.
Aristotle defined virtue as a quality of character that makes for a life well lived.
