The phrase "acquired faculty" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing skills, abilities, or knowledge that have been developed or gained over time.
Example: "Through years of study and practice, she has developed an acquired faculty for understanding complex mathematical concepts."
Alternatives: "developed skill" or "gained ability".
But in 1877, in a festschrift for his colleague Armand de Fleury, he stated, "Man is, of all the animals, the one whose brain …is most asymmetrical…also possesses most acquired faculties.
As a result, the "programme-controlled machine tool line" could "without the intervention of any human agency" produce a "new set of machine tools in its own image"; they had acquired "the faculty of unassisted reproduction".
Other people have developed remarkable musical or artistic abilities, but few people have acquired mathematical faculties like Padgett's.
Flaubert has been accused of presenting them as imbeciles, but in fact he expresses his compassion for them: "They acquire a faculty deserving of pity, they recognize stupidity and can no longer tolerate it.
He reminds us of Noah Webster's admonition that children's minds be "untainted till their reasoning faculties have acquired strength and the good principles which may be planted … have taken deep root"; and he cites a 1979 opinion in which Justice Lewis F. Powell declares that "the State is entitled to adjust its legal system to account for children's vulnerability".
Remember that the hardest thing to acquire is the faculty of being unselfish.
The list includes dismantling the lecture-based approach for entry-level courses, converting "gatekeeper" courses designed to weed students out of certain fields into "gateway" courses, providing institutional incentives for good teaching, and helping faculty acquire the necessary skills.
Even though the majority of postdocs will do something other than become tenure-track faculty members, the default assumption of many PIs (and their mentees) remains that graduate students and postdocs will follow their mentors' career trajectory and acquire an academic faculty position at a research-intensive institution.
If the use of reliable faculties is sufficient for knowledge, and if by using reliable faculties we acquire the belief that our faculties are reliable, then we come to know that our faculties are reliable.
In the beginning, there was one people, perhaps no more than 2,000 strong, who had acquired an amazing gift, the faculty for complex language.
