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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.

From Unconscious Memory by Butler, Samuel

It leaves unaffected the problem of the mind with its peculiar and underivable laws, from the logical to the ethical.

From Naturalism And Religion by Otto, Rudolf

All these are of a psychical nature, immaterial, and underivable from the material.

From Naturalism And Religion by Otto, Rudolf

They deify as God something which I can only translate by a word as underivable as God - I mean Gumption. 

From The Note-Books of Samuel Butler by Butler, Samuel

The non-living and the inorganic are also underivable as to their individual stages, and the leap from the inorganic to the organic is simply much greater than that from attraction in general to chemical affinity.

From Naturalism And Religion by Otto, Rudolf