It was while he was in this state that his novels which he always spoke of as independent beings, knowing and mysterious would suddenly reveal themselves to him.
Rudabeh was no feminist, but a thousand years ago she existed in a poet's imagination, an independent woman, knowing the risks she had to go through for love, but also knowing what she wanted, and how to get it.
Hislop said he had not been involved in political talks ahead of the cross-party deal, adding that it was difficult "as an independent voice" knowing what regulatory framework to sign up to.
The Fine Gael-Labour government faced the opposing ranks of Fianna Fáil, Sinn Féin, the United Left Alliance and heterogeneous band of independent TDs knowing that in many ways the coalition's fate is as much in the hands of a trio staying at a hotel directly behind the parliament as inside the chamber.
For example, if X and Y are independent, then knowing X does not give any information about Y and vice versa.
The probable independent candidate, Ross Perot, knowing very little about the subject, had little to say.
Contrary to all Idealist metaphysics, this world, except for the finite minds that are to found within it, is independent of any knowing mind.
Both physical and epistemic probability can be given an objective and subjective character, in the sense that both can be taken as dependent or independent of a knowing subject and her conceptual apparatus.
If there was some independent way of knowing that the major premise was true, such that it was a bylaw that only old Etonians could be committee members, the argument would be a serious one, and not beg the question.
The success of a theory does not by itself suggest that it is likely approximately true, and since there is no independent way of knowing the base rate of approximately true theories, the chances of it being approximately true cannot be assessed.
