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, 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.

Thus, there is freshness not only in the individual movements of the dance but in the shape of their continuity as well.

Thus, on the highroad, a troop of soldiers `` marched in their own dust and sang '', while on the footpath one man walks alone.

Thus, when the Russians sent up their first sputnik, American chagrin was human enough, and American determination to put American satellites into orbit was perfectly understandable.

Thus, in the last few years, a number of programs which looked very promising at the time their development was commenced have since been completely eliminated.

Thus it is reasonable to believe that there is a significant difference between the two groups in their performance on this task after a brief `` structuring '' experience.

Thus twenty `` black souls '' were to remain ignorant of their imminent journey to the land of free men.

Thus Baptist churches on the frontier took cognizance of charges against their members of drunkenness, fighting, malicious gossip, lying, cheating, sexual irregularities, gambling, horse racing, and failure to pay just debts.

Thus they formed their own dioceses and national church, the Episcopal Church in the United States of America, in a mostly amicable separation.

Thus a colonial bishop and colonial diocese was by nature quite a different thing from their counterparts back home.

Thus, a Rabbi, a Catholic priest, and an agnostic might agree that, in this particular case, the best approach is to withhold extraordinary medical care, while disagreeing on the reasons that support their individual positions.

Thus we hear of abbots going out to hunt, with their men carrying bows and arrows ; keeping horses, dogs and huntsmen ; and special mention is made of an abbot of Leicester, c. 1360, who was the most skilled of all the nobility in hare hunting.

Thus, he believed real charity supplied the means for those who wish to help themselves, achieve their goals.

Thus, if people are accustomed to using a particular machine name to access a particular service, their access will break when the service is moved to a different machine.

Thus, on January 16, 1997, the Diamondbacks were officially voted into the National League while their expansion counterparts in Tampa Bay were voted into the American League.

Thus, most recipes that use bay leaves will recommend their removal after the cooking process has finished.

Thus, events arguably deserve their own ontological category.

Thus the limbs of the castrati often grew unusually long, as did the bones of their ribs.

Thus the Hellenic laws treated all forms of theft, assault, rape, and murder as private wrongs, and left action for enforcement up to the victims or their survivors.

Thus the first two games were played at Wrigley Field and the next three at the home of their opponents, San Diego.

In his fictional historical essay " The Hyborian Age ", Howard describes how the people of Atlantis — the land where his character King Kull originated — had to move east after a great cataclysm changed the face of the world and sank their island, settling where Ireland and Scotland would eventually be located, Thus they are ( in Howard's work ) the ancestors of the Irish and Scottish ( the Celtic Gaels ) and not the Picts, the other ancestor of modern Scots who also appear in Howard's work.

Thus, by 1939, both Church ( 1934 ) and Turing ( 1939 ), neither having knowledge of the other's efforts, had individually proposed that their " formal systems " should be definitions of " effective calculability "; neither framed their statements as theses.

Thus, as an ethnic religion, Judaism holds that others may have their own, different, paths to God ( or holiness, or " salvation "), as long as they are consistent with the Seven Laws of Noah.

Thus literary criticism became highly theoretical and some of those practicing it began referring to the theoretical dimension of their work as " critical theory "-a philosophically inspired theory of literary criticism.

Thus, double-barreled shotguns are accurate only at practical shotgun ranges, though the range of their ammunition easily exceeds four to six times that range.