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not produced by artifice, convention, or deliberate human design; natural
Hume asks whether justice could arise from an inartificial principle of the mind.
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inartificially
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Formed from in-, 'not,' + artificial. In older philosophical and rhetorical writing, inartificial commonly contrasted what arises naturally with what is created by skill or convention.