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.

Thus, according to Étienne Boileau's Book of Handicrafts, by the mid-13th century there were no less than 100 guilds in Paris, a figure which by the 14th century had risen to 350.

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

Thus, since the participants of the Milgram experiment do not have a topological map of the social network, they might actually be sending the package further away from the target rather than sending it along the shortest path.

Thus, if corporations are not to run away with us, they must become quasi-governmental institutions, subject to public control and needs.

Thus the student of literature may sometimes find it helpful to classify a poem or an essay as being in idea or in ideal content or subject matter typical or atypical of its period.

" Thus, even when reception was effected by a constitution, the common law was still subject to alteration by a legislature's statute.

Thus, it might be used to challenge the sharp distinction made in U. S. v. E. C. Knight ( 1895 ) between commerce, which was subject to federal regulation, and manufacturing, which was not.

Thus Sophia ’ s power becomes enclosed within the material forms of humanity, themselves entrapped within the material universe: the goal of Gnostic movements was typically the awakening of this spark, which permitted a return by the subject to the superior, non-material realities which were its primal source.

Thus, knowing the students ' level on a developmental sequence provides information on the kind and level of knowledge they can assimilate, which, in turn, can be used as a frame for organizing the subject matter to be taught at different school grades.

Thus described, the subject seems comic, but it isn't.

Thus, he could hold censorial powers, while technically not subjecting himself to the same checks that the ordinary censors were subject to, and he used these powers to fill the Senate with his own partisans.

Thus to add a person ( or subject ) to one's kill file is to arrange for that person to be ignored by one's newsreader in the future.

Thus three major themes in 19th century mathematics were combined by Lie in creating his new theory: the idea of symmetry, as exemplified by Galois through the algebraic notion of a group ; geometric theory and the explicit solutions of differential equations of mechanics, worked out by Poisson and Jacobi ; and the new understanding of geometry that emerged in the works of Plücker, Möbius, Grassmann and others, and culminated in Riemann's revolutionary vision of the subject.

Within the space of these tendencies there has developed a coherent critique of " orthodox Marxism " that includes not only a rejection of the concept of " the transition " but a reconceptualization of the process of transcending capitalism that has remarkable similarities to ( Peter ) Kropotkin's thinking on this subject ... Thus one of the earliest political tendencies within which this approach appeared after the Russian revolution of 1917 was that of " Council Communism " which saw the " workers councils " in Germany ( see Bavarian Soviet Republic ), or the soviets in Russia, as new organizational forms constructed by the people.

Thus, light extraction in LEDs is an important aspect of LED production, subject to much research and development.

Thus the Mary Rose was subject to salvage from the sixteenth century and later, but a very large amount of material, buried in the sediments, remained to be found by maritime archaeologists of the twentieth century.

Thus, issues such as the ability to grant pre-trial relief, procedure and form, as well as statutes of limitations are classified as “ procedure ” and are always subject to domestic law where the divorce case is pending.

Thus, for Agricola, dialectic was an open field ; the art of finding ' whatever can be said with any degree of probability on any subject ' ( Hamilton, David.

Thus, Roman law is often still a mandatory subject for law students in civil law jurisdictions.

Thus if a trade secret has been acquired via industrial espionage, its acquirer will probably be subject to legal liability for acquiring it improperly.

Thus, tax collectors often monitor newspaper articles for stories about wealthy people who have lent art to museums for public display, because the artworks have then become subject to personal property tax.

Thus, they have no legal existence independent from the trustee and his or her ownership of the subject matter of the trust.

Thus the Council Fathers meant to say that the being of the Church as such is a broader entity than the Roman Catholic Church, but within the latter it acquires, in an incomparable way, the character of a true and proper subject.

Thus, two parties talking via satellite are subject to about a half second delay in a round-trip message / response sequence.

Thus one finds in the Jain texts, deliberative exhortations on any subject in all its facts, may they be constructive or obstructive, inferential or analytical, enlightening or destructive.

Thus, there are clearly two opposing sides within Islam on the subject of hip-hop not only in France but around the world.

Thus, in active declarative sentences in English the subject is followed by the main verb which in turn is followed by the object ( SVO ).