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

It has too an innate knowledge of--an instinct for--another, greater rhythm, another order of Reality, as yet outside its conscious field; or as we say, a capacity for the Infinite.

From Practical Mysticism A Little Book for Normal People by Underhill, Evelyn