The phrase "absence of knowing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a state where someone lacks knowledge or awareness about something.
Example: "In the absence of knowing the full context, it is difficult to make an informed decision."
Alternatives: "lack of understanding" or "ignorance of the facts."
So of course, from the limited resources they have in which reasons are vastly more familiar than causes (the causes that natural science later most fully discerns by investigation), they come up with what they know the questioner wishes to hear – an explanation – but in the absence of knowing very much about causes, they give it in intentionalistic terms.
LYRICAL PUTTY The lyrics one creates in one's head in the absence of knowing a song's real lyrics.
"The chances of any of them making up such similar accusations in the absence of knowing each other is absurd".
In the absence of knowing exactly how specific classified interrogation techniques have been used, Mr. Mukasey continued, he did not want to offer legal opinions on "hypotheticals".
Thankfully there's also an absence of knowing references to other movies and TV shows, and there isn't an American accent to be heard.
Not long ago they were a collection of big lumps, hard in the tackle but hamstrung by an absence of knowing what to do with the ball.
It's been only a few days since Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh was accused of attempting to rape a woman when they were both teenagers at a party, but there have already been a rush of judgements and debates, arguments and counterarguments that blossomed in the absence of anyone knowing anything.
A main rationale for the work lies in the difficulty of knowing — in the absence of explosive testing, which the United States gave up in 1992 — whether the bombs will go off as designed.
A weakness of the before and after design is that, in the absence of a counterfactual, there is no way of knowing whether the outcomes of interest would have changed in the absence of the FHCI.
In the absence of Soviet opinion polls we have no way of knowing if the populace at large appreciates the irony of a Russian Communist's lament that he is being coerced to conform to the majority position.
A counter argument is that we have no way of knowing what the rate would be in the absence of BCG vaccination since placebo controlled trials are not possible, and thus we have no way of determining overall vaccine efficacy.
