In becoming well-informed, one depends on knowledge socially derived through the consultation of eyewitnesses, insiders, analysts, and commentators, depending on their access to facts and governing relevances, much as Alvin Goldman's social epistemology involves appraising the veritistic value of assorted agents' claims and practices.
Most genetic modifications have pleiotropic effects, so the meaningful interpretation of any one behavior often critically depends on knowledge of other phenotypes.
Improvisation is intrinsic to good engineering and management: it's not free-floating fantasy but depends on knowledge, skills, and experience.
However, this kind of software depends on knowledge of the consumer's location, which may be different from the billing address.
Technical design, whether of laboratory instruments or for industry and commerce, depends on knowledge of the properties of materials (density, strength, electrical conductivity, etc)., some of which can only be found by very elaborate experiments (e.g., those dealing with the masses and excited states of atomic nuclei).
Many of the manifestations of renal disease can be accounted for in terms of disturbance of these two functions, and the alleviation of symptoms in those renal diseases that cannot be cured depends on knowledge of how these two functions are affected.
The successful conversion of plant production systems from conventional resource-exhausting to sustainable strategies depends on knowledge-based management of environmental factors.
But of course, getting to know Gertrude and Ernest would depend on knowledge, good fortune, privilege and talent.
Initially, animals were probably observed for practical reasons because early human survival depended on knowledge of animal behaviour.
In a low-tech setting this may depend on knowledge transfer, which ICRISAT has done by training extension workers and NGOs, and by providing factsheets to farmers.
