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If underivable from, or irreconcilable with, known laws, it is a mere conjecture or prejudice.
Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889
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They deify as God something which I can only translate by a word as underivable as God -- I mean Gumption.
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler Samuel Butler 1868
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On the other hand, both the above illustrations afford evidence of an unconscious perception of the facts, and prove the existence of a direct knowledge underivable from any sensual impression or from consciousness.
Unconscious Memory Samuel Butler 1868
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“The enumeration of the attributes of oxygen, of gold, of man, should be an enumeration of the final (so far as can be made out), the underivable, powers or functions of each,” and nothing less than this is a complete Definition (i.,
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839
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