Sentence examples for know independently from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless, we know independently what the distribution is — we know independently that the presence or absence of molecules on Saturn doesn't affect things like who has mental properties here on Earth.

You might know independently, for example, that the hat is white and looks blue to you only because you are wearing blue-tinted glasses.

But this raises a question that perceptive critics of 17th century Rationalism asked viz., even if it were granted that there are innate concepts and principles, how can they support Rationalism unless we know independently that they are correct?

According to that disjunctive account when you have an experience, you can know, independently of whether you know that you are hallucinating, that it appears to you that such and such is the case.

However, we can know independently of experience (that is, a priori) that if the post is actually red, then it's red since it is true in the actual world.

When Washington wanted to make public its evidence exposing Osama bin Laden's terror group but felt the release might compromise its intelligence gathering, Mr. Blair was able to fulfill the mission by disclosing what Britain knew independently.

The Jewish critic Salomon Maimon contended that, though there are such things as a priori concepts (concepts that can be known independently of experience), their application to experience is always problematical, and whether they apply can be determined only through experience itself.

The problem with this at the time was, firstly, that some atomic weights needed to be known independently to establish the truth of the rule, and, secondly, there were known counter-instances.