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innate

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innate
1. Botany (of anthers) joined to the filament by the base only
2. (in rationalist philosophy) (of ideas) present in the mind before any experience and knowable by pure reason


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Natural, inherent -- as innate ideas, that is to say,
Calling innate evidence of worth by the name of fancy, is not candid.
Essay concerning the Human Understanding,' he proved the non- existence of innate ideas.
 
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