innate knowledge

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Google systematically evaluates the factuality of its own models, in terms of both their innate knowledge and their use of the company’s search engines, says a company spokeswoman.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

Socrates's takeaway is that the boy had innate knowledge of the Pythagorean theorem all along; the questioning just helped him express it.

From Scientific American • Mar. 7, 2023

It’s something that hits the olfactory system strongest, activating an innate knowledge within us: We know this smell, on a cellular level.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 9, 2022

Stefanski’s innate knowledge of the Vikings would seem to give the Browns an advantage heading into this week’s game.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 29, 2021

Instinct is innate knowledge how to perform any useful actions, accompanied by a tendency or propensity to perform those actions, but wholly unaccompanied by knowledge of any purpose which they can serve.

From Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications by Thornton, William Thomas