connatural

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Now the connatural mode of the human soul is that it should understand sometimes actually, and sometimes potentially.

From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

Thus the human mind has no criterion of truth within itself, no elements of knowledge which are connatural and inborn.

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)

Accordingly, in matters subject to human reason, and directed to man's connatural end, man can work through the judgment of his reason.

From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

Again, the individual corporeal substance can, absolutely speaking, exist without its connatural accident of external or local extension; this latter can, absolutely speaking, exist without its connatural substance;158 therefore these are absolutely and really distinct.

From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Coffey, Peter

Now a thing is indebted in a special way to that which is its connatural principle of being and government.

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint