underived

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Not less remarkable is the implication in these words, not only of the completeness of His message, but of the fullness of His knowledge of God, and its entirely underived nature.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chaps. XV to XXI by Maclaren, Alexander

In that case, we thus have two equally real ultimate beings, each underived from the other, existing side by side from all eternity.

From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by Stace, W. T. (Walter Terence)

He assumes the Nous and matter as existing from the beginning, side by side, as equally ultimate and underived principles.

From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by Stace, W. T. (Walter Terence)

The power of the intellect is not some underived, original, independent power which can impose or, better, superimpose its categorical imperatives upon human conduct.

From The Philosophy of Spinoza by Ratner, Joseph

The simple and underived character of the moral faculty is maintained because of the superior authority attached to what is natural, as opposed to what is merely conventional.

From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Bain, Alexander