noun
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the state or condition of being inherent
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metaphysics the relation of attributes, elements, etc, to the subject of which they are predicated, esp if they are its essential constituents
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Etymology
Origin of inherence
From the Medieval Latin word inhaerentia, dating back to 1570–80. See inherent, -ence
Example Sentences
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The three dynamical relations then, from which all others spring, are those of inherence, consequence, and composition.
From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow
Let us begin by assuming smallness to be inherent in one: in this case the inherence is either in the whole or in a part.
From Parmenides by Jowett, Benjamin
The hypothesis of inherence gives an inadequate account of the dependence of an attribute on a substance, and is a kind of half-way house between separation and predication.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" by Various
When any individual is destroyed, the class-character does not go elsewhere, nor subsist in that individual, nor is itself destroyed, but it is only the inherence of class-character with that individual that ceases to exist.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath
And, if the substance of the soul is defined as that in which perceptions inhere, what is meant by the inherence?
From Hume (English Men of Letters Series) by Huxley, Thomas Henry
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