It is not, therefore, as a sensing being that one finds happiness, but rather through the endurableness of a virtuous life. |
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Tom Jones probably prompted Richardson to offer the virtuous hero, Grandison, as a response to Fielding's scapegrace. |
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Just as crimes are severely punished, statues of virtuous men, set in marketplaces, publicly honor good deeds. |
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The North might have chosen the path of virtuous isolationism, letting the South secede and becoming an egalitarian social democracy. |
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These are great, clumping, virtuous blocks of stiff leather with bulbous reinforced toecaps, designed never to wear out. |
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Both serials harked back to a period when men were heroic, women were virtuous and times were better. |
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But, nota bene, his blessings flow only in the direction of those who are already virtuous. |
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There is thus a mixture of the comic and the tragic, the virtuous and the villainous, the young and the old, the male and the female. |
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Biblically inspired games were based on the Protestant worldview that success was reached by living a virtuous life. |
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Astounding again are Hampson's vocal options displayed here, from ordinary chest voice to virtuous trills. |
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We moralize the issue of weight and so the really virtuous person is the one who struggles to maintain a lower weight through sacrifice. |
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Of all the Greek moralists, Aristotle provides the most psychologically insightful account of virtuous character. |
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Why then do we continue to mount these plays, so often and with such virtuous resolve? |
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Too much education was said in many circles to make girls less virtuous, even to unsex them. |
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The classical moral categories of action are ethical vs. unethical, just vs. unjust and virtuous vs. unvirtuous. |
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You cannot live a good life, a virtuous life, by avoiding or ignoring the world of vice, sin and sleaze. |
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The seductive illusion of virtuous circle was transposed to the ugly reality of vicious financial death spiral. |
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Being virtuous means knowing the right time, place, circumstance, and manner in which to be courageous. |
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Athlete behavior is meant to be exemplary and virtuous and sustain the rags to riches myths of successful sports stars from humble origins. |
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He presented himself as an honest and virtuous man, a spokesman for the outsiders in society. |
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Another feature of ceremonial discourse is that it will praise the virtuous and the good because it is designed for its receiver's pleasure. |
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The first few pages of the letter reflect the virtuous principles that a mother would try to inculcate into her daughter in the 18th century. |
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He is a virtuous, moral man with dignity and strength, not the mild-mannered pushover of decades past. |
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Religions and true religious leaders have always motivated us to indulge only in noble thoughts and virtuous actions. |
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Many have thought that having certain emotions is an important part of what it is to be a virtuous moral agent. |
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The consummation, the crowning glory of a well-lived life, happiness would be granted only to the worthy, the virtuous, the god-like happy few. |
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Understanding the way karma works, we seek to live a good and virtuous life through right thought, right speech and right action. |
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For one thing, the sanctimonious sermons by journalists about how virtuous and upstanding they are make them easy to detest. |
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It's hypocritical in the sense that these people all lie yet proclaim themselves virtuous and honest, yes. |
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I've seen Titanic enough times to know that rich people are fatuous and greedy, while poor people are noble and virtuous. |
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Faithful Emilia died, still calmly defending Desdemona's innocence and proclaiming her love for the virtuous woman. |
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So the virtuous circle of lower prices, higher sales and increased profits continues, seemingly unabated. |
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But we are more likely to establish a virtuous circle if the need for progress on reducing poverty is given a high public and political profile. |
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As is often the case, the whisky industry has shown the way by creating a virtuous circle out of location, tradition, reputation and marketing. |
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If you create an environment where the public have more confidence in the system, you create a virtuous circle. |
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Rather than being a perfectly virtuous moral agent, it seems to me that an uncaring, robot-like obeyer of duty is morally bankrupt. |
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Only within a conjugal union could women be chaste and virtuous, and nurture a positive influence on children and men. |
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Demonstrative or panegyrical oratory is associated with the past and urges an audience to honor and imitate a virtuous subject. |
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By these means, the virtuous mother could mold an unspoiled, respectful, neat, and clean child. |
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It is impossible to find a hygienist who does not debase his theory of the healthful with a theory of the virtuous. |
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Nobody gets points for being virtuous and cleaving to fidelity when there are no opportunities to do otherwise. |
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He is a Pharisee exposed, the hypocrite who tells his patients how virtuous it is to be stoical. |
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There is no sort of impiety or wickedness which in this way has not come to be accounted virtuous and good. |
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In order to lead a virtuous life, reason must shape our impulses and guide their expression in action. |
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They're impure, contaminating a virtuous America with their sinful behavior. |
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If that ruler is truly virtuous, wise and far-seeing, then that nation is truly a happy land. |
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You may feel virtuous digging into a salad without cheese, olives or nuts and drizzled with fat-free dressing. |
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Most early accounts of incubi involved nuns as victims, although there were also virtuous women and priests. |
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In any particular situation, the virtuous person acts in such a way that he instantiates all of the relevant virtues. |
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Cronyn is an inimitable professional, but her Virginia is disappointingly virtuous and fleshless. |
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As Foreman, Quaid plumbs new depths of cragginess to give his otherwise virtuous character a bit of grit. |
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She became the virtuous focus of masculine desire, the unmoved mover who stirred her subjects to acts of gallantry and heroism. |
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English imperial georgics describe imperial expansion in such a way that virtuous, civilizing labor is rendered infinitely progressive. |
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Oral folktales often expressed the hopes and aspirations of a peasant class where paupers became princes and virtuous girls princesses. |
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Those who are devotees and who worship Vishnu, are those who perform virtuous deeds. |
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Time is thus measured as the extent to which one's virtuous labor gives way to corruption and degeneration. |
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The seminar also promulgates the idea of virtuous circles of economic growth, where migrants send money back home, creating more circles. |
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They both ask people to be virtuous, and they both do good to their followers. |
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She has also trained herself to meet the standards of a graceful, understanding, good-tempered and virtuous wife. |
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The plot revolves around the love story between the school greaser Danny and the virtuous newcomer Sandy. |
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Reforming our cars, greening our energy, planting some trees, redesigning our cities, these are virtuous but piecemeal efforts. |
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He sent his agents, emissaries to her with fabulous temptations but the virtuous 1ady rebuffed them, one and all. |
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On her release, she promptly drops her virtuous facade, dons the red eye shadow and sets about finding Baek and wreaking her vengeance. |
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The Lacedaemonians are exceedingly virtuous among themselves, and according to their national standard of morality. |
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The figure of the cowboy became the West's protagonist, a self-reliant individualist with a virtuous sense of fair play. |
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The most virtuous of mothers can be putty in the hands of the least virtuous of sons. |
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Low taxation creates a virtuous circle, leading to more money and employment for all. |
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The virtuous circle of rising productivity, falling unemployment and high growth, which has characterised the US economy over the past 10 years, seems to be coming to an end. |
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A virtuous citizenry, which Jefferson considered essential to a republican form of government, was most reliably constituted of yeomen farmers he believed. |
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Maybe the way to do it is to stop using Remembrance Day to memorialize brave and virtuous soldiers and instead begin focusing on civilian casualties. |
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Credit and consumption, it was argued, formed a virtuous circle since from the immediate increase in prosperity would come the ability to pay off debt. |
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Making material free should fuel a virtuous circle of increasing access. |
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This has provided the extra prize-money, which is the crucial factor in creating the virtuous circle that produces better horses, bigger crowds and wider benefits. |
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The UK economy has been propelled along by consumers, creating a virtuous circle in which their spending creates jobs in the economy, which in turn generates more spending. |
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If financial gain and civic betterment are mutually exclusive, the shrinking capital worth of a diminished investment must be gloriously virtuous indeed. |
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Too intimate a portrayal of a virtuous Spanish woman was considered indecorous, and perhaps being portrayed itself was perceived as contributing to vanity. |
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I see another quiet figure, of virtuous life and quiet ways, not much heard of until our left was turned at Petersburg. |
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The paper will try to demonstrate how the night meeting of Ruth and Boaz at the threshing floor could have served as a kind of biblical example of pious, virtuous bundling. |
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By then, however, American simplicity entailed the mass consumption of mass-produced commodities, not the virtuous self-abnegation of the Revolutionary generation. |
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We currently seem to believe that the more flamboyant the send-off, as our nearest and dearest exit stage left, the more virtuous or enlightened a breed we are. |
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And once the world is made virtuous, will there be no more cakes and ale? |
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None of us is infinitely wise, impossibly strong or indomitably virtuous. |
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She felt that she had made a virtuous decision by donating the money to charity. |
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The Midrashim, however, go to great lengths to describe Serach as someone who was given extreme longevity for having done a single virtuous deed as a child. |
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Once again, tax rate cuts have created a virtuous chain reaction of higher economic growth, more jobs, higher corporate profits, and finally more tax receipts. |
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The law, while it assumes the guardianship of youth by suppressing immorality, still permits these wantons to rove, uncontrolled, among the virtuous as well as the profligate. |
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The women's critique broke down views of virtue and vice that associated smoke with virtuous masculine industriousness and clean air with vicious feminized luxury. |
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Situated somewhere between written and spoken language, interviews combine the vicarious pleasures of eavesdropping with the virtuous pursuit of edification. |
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Shakespeare places a high value upon chastity, but he does not go so far as some of his contemporaries who thought that virtuous women had no physical desires. |
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The price of a virtuous woman, says Proverbs, is more than that of rubies. |
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Should applications of technology be socially virtuous by any standard? |
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These multilateral institutions provide help to states wishing to find their way back into the global economy and into the virtuous circle of investment and prosperity. |
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However, Duncan's desire to simultaneously get her feet dirty and to signify them as moral and virtuous problematizes the cultural codification of bare feet. |
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But a vicious circle is often just a virtuous circle in disguise. Increasing the flexibility in how we use super savings should make it politically easier to expand. |
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Indeed, a parent who made his love conditional upon a child's maintaining some particular standard of virtuous behavior would be rightly regarded as something of a monster. |
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The labour of a day will not build up a virtuous habit on the ruins of an old and vicious character. |
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The Electress Magdalena Sybilla was a woman of character, virtuous, kind, conventional and managing. |
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In this virtuous voyage of life hull not about like the ark, without the use of rudder, mast, or sail, and bound for no port. |
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Artha is objective and virtuous pursuit of wealth for livelihood, obligations and economic prosperity. |
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Judith's character is rendered blameless and virtuous, and her beauty is praised persistently throughout the poem. |
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In particular, Johnson emphasises God's infinite love and shows that happiness can be attained through virtuous action. |
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If we are able to accomplish this then we potentially could lead happy and virtuous lives. |
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Some authors have suggested that a virtuous culture must exist as a prerequisite for liberty. |
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The second, legitimacy based on charismatic leadership is devotion to a leader or group that is viewed as exceptionally heroic or virtuous. |
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It was thought that this could start a virtuous cycle and a rising business confidence since there would be more workers with money to spend. |
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As with fasting, mentioning to others one's own virtuous deeds tends to reflect a sinful pride, and may also be considered extremely rude. |
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This kind of life is often seen as incompatible with any kind of worldly activity including that which is normally regarded as virtuous. |
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If in reality Trajan was an autocrat, his deferential behavior towards his peers qualified him to be viewed as a virtuous monarch. |
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Some theologians such as Thomas Aquinas discussed Trajan as an example of a virtuous pagan. |
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His countrymen were presented as virtuous people within a French, imperial, and papal triangle. |
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Virtue jurisprudence is the view that the laws should promote the development of virtuous characters by citizens. |
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As an Anglican cleric, Malthus saw this situation as divinely imposed to teach virtuous behaviour. |
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Virtuous action towards others begins with virtuous and sincere thought, which begins with knowledge. |
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A virtuous disposition without knowledge is susceptible to corruption, and virtuous action without sincerity is not true righteousness. |
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While he supported the idea of government ruling by a virtuous king, his ideas contained a number of elements to limit the power of rulers. |
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Those men who set up for mortality without regard to religion, are generally but virtuous in part. |
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Louis could aim to restyle himself the first among citizens, viewing virtuous attachment to the public weal as his most important kingly duty. |
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Superman Returns'' is a comic book movie for people who like virtuous superheroes, soap-opera story lines and blatant messianic allegories. |
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Most newspapers try to cover contentious issues even-handedly, which, while virtuous, tends to offend both sides. |
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A key theme of The Histories is the good statesman as virtuous and composed. |
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Unfortunately, virtuous parenting is no warranty against corrupt children. |
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I'm pretty sure I wafted around in a haze of it, like Pigpen from Snoopy's more virtuous twin. |
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And thanks to its undeniable eco cred, you'll feel like a virtuous pedal pusher to boot. |
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As I had asked for a night-light, the chamberlain had brought me in, before he left me, the good old constitutional rushlight of those virtuous days. |
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This cartel flagrantly violated the teachings of the church, which tried to justify it by pointing to the virtuous military campaigns it would finance. |
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As an urban lifestyle came to be associated with decadence, the Church formally discouraged gluttony, and hunting and pastoralism were seen as simple, virtuous ways of life. |
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Implicitly for this definition, the second law of thermodynamics provides information that establishes the virtuous character of the temperature so defined. |
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Insofar as one is epistemically virtuous, one's confidence in a claim will tend to track the quality of the evidence that one has for the truth of that claim. |
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