connatural
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These ideas, he held, are not derived from sensation, neither are they generalizations from experience, but they are inborn and connatural.
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 B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker
The human nature of our Divine Lord has not its own connatural subsistence; this is supplied by the subsistence of the Divine Person.
From Ontology or the Theory of Being by Peter Coffey
Now no act is perfectly produced by an active power, unless it be connatural to that power by reason of some form which is the principle of that action.
From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Saint Aquinas Thomas
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 Saint Aquinas Thomas
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 B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker
