Sentence examples for we know directly from inspiring English sources

It's true that Buffett hasn't, as far as we know, directly bought up pools of mortgages — as the Geithner plan envisions private investors doing.

In assessing its merits, let's set aside the Benghazi tragedy, which reflected a failure of State Department security arrangements, but which did not, as far we know, directly involve the President or then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Horizon is, as we know, directly related to the core Forza engine but sufficiently distanced that it offers a distinct personality albeit without breaking out of the family circuit.

Sense data, a species of mental states, enjoy a special status: we know directly what they are like.

The Russellian neutral monist anchors the neutral properties in the given, thereby turning them from unknown (or unknowable) properties into properties that we know directly.

Other works have proposed that each ant simulates a real entity, as Mahanti et al. [48] do for simulating attackers in a honeypot environment, but the Manhill algorithm is the first one, as far as we know, directly associating the ants to real-world entities.

We often know directly that we are in a certain mental state.

So, the asymmetry that generates the epistemological problem of other minds is that each of us sometimes knows directly that we are in the mental state we are in and we never know directly that someone other than ourself is in the mental state they are in.

We do not always know directly that we are in the mental state we are in but what is striking is that we never have direct knowledge that other human beings are in whatever mental state they are in.

We don't know directly but this seems to be logical reasoning.

10 Philosophically speaking, realism can be thought of as sitting between positivism ('there is a real external world which we can come to know directly through experiment and observation') and constructivism ('given that all we can know has been interpreted through human senses and the human brain, we cannot know for sure what the nature of reality is').