All 34 Uses
innate
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Sophie's World
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- They could for example point out that the use of an expression like "natural modesty" is not always defensible, for if it is "natural" to be modest, it must be something you are born with, something innate.†
Chpt 7
- But is it really innate, Sophie—or is it socially induced?†
Chpt 7
- To someone who has traveled the world, the answer should be simple: It is not "natural"—or innate—to be afraid to show yourself naked.†
Chpt 7
- In the same way, everybody can grasp philosophical truths if they just use their innate reason.†
Chpt 7
- Using your innate reason means reaching down inside yourself and using what is there.†
Chpt 7
- Are we born with innate "ideas"?†
Chpt 10
- Which brought her to the next question: Are we born with innate "ideas"?†
Chpt 10
- But the same problem was raised here as with the baby and the innate ideas.†
Chpt 10
- No Innate Ideas Like the philosophers before him, Plato wanted to find the eternal and immutable in the midst of all change.†
Chpt 11
- But we also have an innate power of reason.
Chpt 11 *innate = present at birth
- We have no innate ideas, as Plato held, but we have the innate faculty of organizing all sensory impressions into categories and classes.†
Chpt 11
- We have no innate ideas, as Plato held, but we have the innate faculty of organizing all sensory impressions into categories and classes.†
Chpt 11
- Aristotle did not deny that humans have innate reason.†
Chpt 11
- So man has no innate "ideas."†
Chpt 11
- We could say that "substance" always strives toward achieving an innate potentiality.†
Chpt 11
- My personal opinion is that everyone is endowed with this ability, so in other words, conscience is innate.†
Chpt 12
- It is neither through our own merit nor through any natural—or innate—ability.†
Chpt 14
- By that he meant truths that could be reached both through Christian faith and through our innate or natural reason.†
Chpt 15
- According to Descartes, the idea of God is innate, it is stamped on us from birth 'like the artisan's mark stamped on his product.'†
Chpt 18
- Only when we are free to develop our innate abilities can we live as free beings.†
Chpt 19
- That's right, a rationalist believes in reason as the primary source of knowledge, and he may also believe that man has certain innate ideas that exist in the mind prior to all experience.†
Chpt 20
- This view implied a pointed criticism of Plato, who had held that man brought with him a set of innate 'ideas' from the world o ideas.†
Chpt 20
- We have no innate ideas or conceptions about the world we are brought into before we have seen it.†
Chpt 20
- The expectation that the white billiard ball will move when it is struck by the black billiard ball is therefore not innate.†
Chpt 21
- So he thought that perceiving things in time and space was innate?†
Chpt 24
- And that is innate?†
Chpt 24
- The ability to tell right from wrong is just as innate as all the other attributes of reason.†
Chpt 24
- It was characteristic of the Romantic view in general that nature was thought of as an organism, or in other words, a unity which is constantly developing its innate potentialities.†
Chpt 25
- And 'the people' were seen as an organism unfolding its innate potentiality—exactly like nature and history.†
Chpt 25
- The writer could experience that his story was being written by some innate force.†
Chpt 25
- Darwin had, after all, distanced God a good way from the act of creation, although there were admittedly some who claimed it was surely greater to have created something with its own innate evolutionary potential than simply to create a fixed entity.†
Chpt 29
- This means nothing less than that everybody has an innate need to give artistic expression to his or her existential situation.†
Chpt 30
- But according to Sartre, man has no such innate 'nature.'†
Chpt 31
- Although Sartre claimed there was no innate meaning to life, he did not mean that nothing mattered.†
Chpt 31
Definitions:
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(1)
(innate) of a quality: present at birth; or arising from within rather than having been learned or acquired
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)