Thus, while altruistic persons may under some circumstances be outcompeted by less altruistic persons at the individual level, according to group selection theory the opposite may occur at the group level where groups consisting of the more altruistic persons may outcompete groups consisting of the less altruistic persons.

Thus, according to the character Pausanias in Plato's Symposium, Aphrodite is two goddesses, one older while the other younger.

Thus, according to the Bank of England's Boxall and Gallagher ( 1997 ), "... there was virtually no difference between banks and building society ' listed ' interest rates for home finance mortgage lending between 1984 and 1997.

They write: " Thus, according to that alternate rendering, the new birth originates ' from above '— that is, ' from heaven ,' or ' from the Father.

Thus, the molecular formula of ethanol may be written in a paper in conformational, three-dimensional, full two-dimensional ( indicating every bond with no three-dimensional directions ), compressed two-dimensional ( CH < sub > 3 </ sub >– CH < sub > 2 </ sub >– OH ), separating the functional group from another part of the molecule ( C < sub > 2 </ sub > H < sub > 5 </ sub > OH ), or by its atomic constituents ( C < sub > 2 </ sub > H < sub > 6 </ sub > O ), according to what is discussed.

Thus, according to Aquinas, there must have been a time when nothing existed.

Thus perceptions must already come parcelled into distinct " bundles " before they can be associated according to the relations of similarity and causality: in other words, the mind must already possess a unity that cannot be generated, or constituted, by these relations alone.

Thus, according to Lutz, doublespeak is a form of language that defeats the purpose of inventing language because doublespeak does not communicate the truth but seeks to do the opposite and the doublespeak committee is tasked with correcting this problem that doublespeak has created in the world of language.

Thus, though knowledge requires justification, truth, and belief, the word " knowledge " can't be, according to Williamson's theory, accurately regarded as simply shorthand for " justified true belief.

Thus, according to Hegel, a great man does not create historical reality himself but only uncovers the inevitable future.

Isaac Newton wrote of the earth, "“ Thus this Earth resembles a great animall or rather inanimate vegetable, draws in æthereall breath for its dayly refreshment & vitall ferment & transpires again with gross exhalations, And according to the condition of all other things living ought to have its times of beginning youth old age & perishing .”

Thus, according to Josephus, the traditional Jew was, should be, and can be, a loyal and peace-loving citizen.

Thus a leader or important man will be characterised as generous, according to one common convention, and called an " enemy of gold ", " attacker of treasure ", " destroyer of arm-rings ", etc.

Thus, according to Keynesian theory, some individually-rational microeconomic-level actions such as not investing savings in the goods and services produced by the economy, if taken collectively by a large proportion of individuals and firms, can lead to outcomes, wherein the economy operates below its potential output and growth rate.

Thus Legendre's contribution lay in introducing a convenient notation that recorded quadratic residuosity of a mod p. For the sake of comparison, Gauss used the notation, according to whether a is a residue or a non-residue modulo p.

Thus, both the statement " Murder is bad " and the statement " Murder is good " are false, according to an error theory.

Thus, according to Murray, reports of Satan actually represented pagan gatherings with their priest wearing a horned helmet to represent their Horned God.

Thus, according to Wittgenstein, mental states are intimately connected to a subject's environment, especially their linguistic environment, and conceivability or imaginability arguments that claim otherwise are misguided.

Thus, according to the law of non-contradiction, p must be false.

Thus, according to the law of non-contradiction, " not p " must be false, and so, according to the law of the excluded middle, p is true.

Thus, according to the Quran, Muhammad first received revelations in the lunar month of Ramadan.

Thus, according to Milgram, the subject shifts responsibility to another person and does not blame himself for what happens.

Thus the idea of an intellectual or scientific revolution following the Renaissance is — according to the continuity thesis — a myth.

Pope: " Thus on a roe the well-breath'd beagle flies, And rends his hide fresh-bleeding with the dart " The Iliad of Homer ( 1715 – 20 ) Book XV: 697 – 8

" Thus, by the 4th century, there existed unanimity in the West concerning the New Testament canon, and by the 5th century the East, with a few exceptions, had come to accept the Book of Revelation and thus had come into harmony on the matter of the canon.

Thus the ceremony held at the site of the demolished Bastille, organized by the foremost artistic director of the Revolution, Jacques-Louis David, in August 1793 to mark the inauguration of the new republican constitution, an event coming shortly after the final abolition of all forms of feudal privilege, featured a cantata based on Rousseau's democratic pantheistic deism as expounded in the celebrated " Profession de foi d ' un vicaire savoyard " in Book Four of Émile.

Thus, " the onus of being the last ' People of the Book ' engendered an ethos of " early on and the establishment of important book repositories throughout the Muslim world has occurred ever since.

Thus, some claim that, from the 4th century, there existed unanimity in the West concerning the New Testament canon ( as it is today ), and that, by the 5th century, the Eastern Church, with a few exceptions, had come to accept the Book of Revelation and thus had come into harmony on the matter of the canon.

Thus ( Irenaeus, i. 30, p. 109 ) the first archon sent Moses, Joshua, Amos, and Habakkuk ; the second Samuel, Nathan, Jonah, and Micah ; the third Elijah, Joel, and Zechariah ; the fourth Isaiah, Ezekiel, Jeremiah, and Daniel ; the fifth Book of Tobit and Haggai ; the sixth Micah ( qu.

Thus was born the FARMS Critical Text Project which published the first volume of the 3-volume Book of Mormon Critical Text in 1984.

Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None () ( also translated as Thus Spake Zarathustra ) is a philosophical novel by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, composed in four parts between 1883 and 1885.

Thus (), the State of Huá ( 滑 ), can refer to the name of the Hephthalites ' country or tribes mentioned in what is now north Afghanistan from the Book of Liang and Portraits of Periodical Offering of Liang.

Thus emended, the " Book " was presented to the collocutors by Granvella for consideration.

" Thus, in order to strictly adhere to God's will, The Church of Jesus Christ only accepts revelation as supported by the Bible and the Book of Mormon.

Thus the Book of Mormon was translated by the gift and power of God, and not by any power of man.

Thus, he holds the heathen gods to be real beings, but subordinate to the supreme Christian God ; in a streak of gnosticism, he affirms that the human soul ( Book II, 14-62 ) is not the work of God, but of an intermediate being, and is not immortal by nature, but capable of putting on immortality as a grace.

* Book of Jeremiah: Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: I made a covenant with your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, saying: " At the end of seven years ye shall let go every man his brother that is a Hebrew, that hath been sold unto thee, and hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee "; but your fathers hearkened not unto Me, neither inclined their ear.

Thus, some Mormon scholars view Lamanites as ( 1 ) one small tribe among many in the ancient Americas, the remainder of whom were not discussed in The Book of Mormon although they were implied or, ( 2 ) a tribe that intermarried with indigenous Native American cultures.

Thus the Latin of a theologian like St Thomas Aquinas or of an erudite clerical historian such as William of Tyre tends to avoid most of the characteristics described above, showing its period in vocabulary and spelling alone ; the features listed are much more prominent in the language of lawyers ( e. g. the 11th century English Domesday Book ), physicians, technical writers and secular chroniclers.

Thus, when young Joseph had his vision, followed by the coming forth of the Book of Mormon attended by other heavenly messengers, it was the means of making Lucy's dream of a family united in religious harmony come true.

Thus, due to this emphasis on prayer in the early church, lengthy passages of the New Testament are prayers or canticles ( see also the Book of Odes ), such as the Prayer for forgiveness (), the Lord's Prayer, the Magnificat (), the Benedictus (), Jesus ' prayer to the one true God (), Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ (), the Believers ' Prayer (), may this cup be taken from me (), Pray that you will not fall into temptation (), Saint Stephen's Prayer (), Simon Magus ' Prayer (), pray that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men (), Maranatha.

Thus the Gates of Alexander legend was combined with the legend of Gog and Magog from the Book of Revelation.

Furthermore, Book II is also a systematic argument for the existence of an intelligent being: " Thus, from the consideration of ourselves, and what we infallibly find in our own constitutions, our reason leads us to the knowledge of this certain and evident truth, that there is an eternal, most powerful, and most knowing being ; which whether any one will please to call God, it matters not.

Thus " the fact that a thing is itself " perhaps finds its greatest utility to man by providing " a fixed constant nature of sensible things " in an ever changing universe of being --- Metaphysics, Book VII, Part 17

Book of Order, “ nor may they be ignored or dismissed .” Thus, the church requires that ministers of the Word and Sacrament, elders, and deacons give affirmative answer to an ordination question that specifies the source and the function of confessional authority:

Thus it is also sometimes called the Book of Former Han.