Sentence examples for innate endowment from inspiring English sources
There will be brought home to you with irresistible force the many developments, repressions, sublimations, and reaction-formations by means of which a child with a quite other innate endowment grows into what we call a normal man — the bearer, and in part the victim, of the civilization that has been so painfully acquired".
Chomsky is famous for having resuscitated Rationalist doctrines of "innate ideas," according to which many ideas have their origins not in experience, but in our innate endowment.
If this numerical system (what Dehaene has called our number sense) is part of our innate endowment, might it be evident in other primate species?
Some (Pinker 1994; Chomsky 1975, 1980), for instance, conclude that a specific innate endowment help explain several aspects of children's linguistic performance.
On his view, children learn language without the aid of any inborn linguistic information: what children bring to the language learning task — their innate endowment — is not language-specific.
The Nativist, in contrast, is ready to consider that learning a language now reconceived as a matter of grammar acquisition depends in some way on a language-specific innate endowment.
China has an inadequate natural endowment.
Many innate inclinations, talents, artistic endowments remain dormant.
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Taylor and Nguyen [21] state that: "The inclusion of the previous level of attainment is therefore intended to capture the effects on the current level of knowledge of all historical inputs, including inherited endowments such as innate ability as well as family background and schooling".
