underived

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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 youth is seeking for himself a purely human merit, indigenous and underived.

From The Gospel According to St. Mark by Chadwick, G. A.

Consciousness, on the other hand, which for Fortlage coincides with the ego or self, is treated as the presupposition of all representations, not as their result—it is underived activity.

From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Falckenberg, Richard

Mrs. Meredith and Rowan and the clergyman were left with the father and the children, and with an unexampled wedding collation—one of Pansy's underived masterpieces.

From The Mettle of the Pasture by Allen, James Lane

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