Sentence examples for innate inclinations from inspiring English sources
Astell holds a nativism according to which there are not merely innate ideas, but also innate inclinations.
The case of many of the daughters having started out and running their own businesses could easily contradict and debunk this 'protectionist' mode of the fathers, but then again, as the data clearly show, most of them are involved in the so-called soft business fields of tourism, sciences, or health, which according to the fathers serve better their innate inclinations and interests.
Many innate inclinations, talents, artistic endowments remain dormant.
Like other humanistic therapies, Gestalt therapy assumes the innate inclination of individuals to health, wholeness, and realization of their potential.
Also contributing to "the inherent instability of the financial system," he says, are the vagaries of human behavior: "our innate inclination to veer from euphoria to despondency" and "our perennial failure to learn from history".
In early philosophies of psychology and metaphysics, conatus (; Latin for "effort; endeavor; impulse, inclination, tendency; undertaking; striving") is an innate inclination of a thing to continue to exist and enhance itself.
Mice are natural swimmers and this task exploits their innate inclination to escape from water to a solid substrate.
This test is different from the passive avoidance test since the Y-maze is based on the subject's innate inclination to explore a new environment, rather than on learning a new behavior or rule [ 23].
We have natural inclinations to such goods.
The historical context – i.e. male insecurity about women's sexual choice - is seemingly redefined as an innate feminine inclination towards modesty and wholesomeness; or in Greer's case, appears to have been ignored.
The Confucians, by contrast, were forced to flip between appealing to some cultivated authority and attributing an innate moral inclination to the existing conventional language dào to such ordinary people.
