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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
