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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

innate [i′nāt]
(biology)
Pertaining to a natural or inborn character dependent on genetic constitution.
(botany)
Positioned at the apex of a supporting structure.
(mycology)
Embedded in, especially of an organ such as the fruiting body embedded in the thallus of some fungi.


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Philosophers Leibniz and Hume are discussed as well as the concept of innateness in British philosophy.
No Hubris c Proud Citizen - Innateness Unraced An 85,000gns Tattersalls buy who hasn't worked yet but has shown a good bit and is by a stallion we get on with.
It began with Sigmund Freud's (1856-1939) Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality (1905/1953-1974), which challenged beliefs about children's sexual innocence and the innateness of heterosexuality.
 
 
 
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