Charles Hodge

The functions of these elders, therefore, determine the power of the people; for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons; or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act.

American Theologian

Edward Hirsch

The idea of how to read a poem is based on the idea that poetry needs you as a reader. That the experience of poetry, the meaning in poetry, is a kind of circuit that takes place between a poet, a poem and a reader, and that meaning doesn't exist or inhere in poems alone.

American Poet

Emile Durkheim

Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.

French Sociologist

Used for qualities or features that can't be touched but are essential or central to the subject.

Abstract Concepts

'Inhere' is not used for physical objects, but for concepts or conditions that are intangible.

Not Physical

It implies that something is naturally present without being added separately.

Implicitly Present

Can refer to both positive and negative qualities or conditions persevering in something.

Not Always Negative

Indicates that the property or quality is stable within something and does not change easily.

Internal Stability

Remember it's a state, not an action; nothing is physically moving or changing.

No Physical Action

 Well, the argument I'd like to make is that networks have value. They are a kind of social capital. New properties emerge because of our embeddedness in social networks, and these properties inhere in the structure of the networks,