So Reid's account of memory is "direct" in that he insists that we have "immediate knowledge of things past".
God is present everywhere by having immediate knowledge and direct power throughout the universe (with the addition that his presence extends to unoccupied regions of space).
Each person seems to have direct, immediate knowledge of his own conscious sensations and of the contents of his propositional attitudes what he consciously thinks, believes, desires, hopes, fears, and so on.
Dukakis had no immediate knowledge of the incident in question, but the message to jurors was clear: Phillipos was one of Massachusetts's own, and he should not be lumped together with the terrorists and their friends.
The touch of frost in this case is Mary Rose's capacity for instinctive, involuntary surrender to the spirits who tempt her to opt out of time and its natural processes on a kind of existential sabbatical and then return to a world that has cruelly changed in her absence with no immediate knowledge of what has passed.
Some theorists, however, have maintained that functionalism can accommodate the special features of introspective belief on the "inner sense" model, since it would be only one of many domains in which it's plausible to think that we have immediate, non-inferential knowledge of causal or dispositional properties (Armstrong 1993; Kobes 1993; Sterelney 1993).
Research has shown that drivers function in a state of current and immediate knowledge of the driving environment.
Respondents having immediate family members with knee OA had higher knowledge score (25.5 ± 5.7) compared to respondents without a family history of knee OA (12.8 ± 10.5; P < 0.001).
