Sentence examples for known independently from inspiring English sources

But if the instrument is to be set up permanently, one had better look up the equation of time in an almanac and set the instrument by adjusting it to give the right time, known 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.

Thus Whewell also claimed that, in the course of science, truths which at first required experiment to be known are seen to be capable of being known independently of experiment.

He challenged the factual claims on which opponents of sexual equality relied, rejected the value of appealing to women's nature as if it were something that could be known independently of the properties that were predicated of it, and rejected as invalid any inference from established customs (as mere facts) to a moral or political justification of women's status.

Murukan is known independently from Cankam literature dated from 2nd century BCE to 6th century CE.

Mr. Mount said that he did not know what steps agency officials had taken to locate the fugitive or whether agency officials knew independently of her whereabouts.

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 present work offers a more detailed account of these investigations following our first preliminary conference report, continuing a study of elementary tasks, such as counting dots, where one knows independently the expected value because the measurement object (collection of dots) is prepared in advance.

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.