 Although Philip seems to favour the belief that synderesis is a habit, the claim that it is a power of the soul has the rather weighty authority of St. Paul and St. Jerome. Philip therefore splits the difference, as it were, and argues that it is a “habit-like power” or “dispositional potentiality” (habitualis potentiae)—a faculty of the soul that disposes its possessor towards choosing the unqualified good—though one that is innate rather than acquired through habituation: