Example sentences of "know [conj] [pers pn] [be] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | This argument turned out to be the one that forced us to admit in the first place that we do not know that we are not brains in vats . |
| 2 | Mortality statistics , too , are not restricted to the unemployed : how do we know that they are not indicating greater health problems in the population as a whole during times of economic difficulty ? |
| 3 | She may know that she is not going to recover from the blow of widowhood any sooner than other women do , many of whom at least have a large legacy of happy memories upon which to draw in the years ahead of them . |
| 4 | At least then he would know that she was not lying on ice in a bloody mortuary . |
| 5 | You do not know that you are not a brain , suspended in a vat full of liquid in a laboratory , and wired to a computer which is feeding you your current experiences under the control of some ingenious technician/scientist ( benevolent or malevolent according to taste ) . |
| 6 | Is it possible , however , that though you do not know that you are not a brain in a vat you still know many other things , perhaps more important ? |
| 7 | We can surely conclude that if you know that you are sitting reading , you know that you are not a brain in a vat , and hence ( by simple modus tollens ) that since you do n't know that you are not a brain in a vat ( agreed above ) you do n't know that you are sitting reading . |
| 8 | It seems therefore to show , more generally , that since you do n't know that you are not a brain in a vat you can not know any proposition p of which you know that if p were true , you would not be a brain in a vat . |
| 9 | And there are similar slightly different arguments , for instance Descartes ' version which takes q = you are dreaming and argues that since you do n't know that you are not dreaming you do n't know any proposition p of which you know that if p were true you would not be dreaming ( see the first Meditation in Descartes , 1955 ) . |
| 10 | The conditional theory of knowledge can show that you do not know that you are not a brain in a vat . |
| 11 | Therefore , if the conditional theory of knowledge is on the right lines , you do not know that you are not a brain in a vat . |
| 12 | First , it can reinforce our intuitions that you know that you are sitting reading etc. , that you know that if you are sitting reading etc. you are not a brain in a vat , and that you do not know that you are not a brain in a vat . |
| 13 | However , you do not know that you are not a brain in a vat because it is not the case that ( 3 ) in the nearest worlds in which you are a brain in a vat you believe that you are a brain in a vat . |
| 14 | Hence you can know that you are sitting reading even though you do not know that you are not asleep in bed , dreaming that you are sitting reading . |
| 15 | Your reader will then know that you are not presuming that she or he knows what the term means . |
| 16 | And they says , Well a person who lived in your flat before you had a telly , you know and they gave me some excuse , you know that the the the person who lived in here before me had ripped them off and they says , How do we know that you 're not that person , you know things like that . |
| 17 | Anyone who has been instrumental in this transformation of another person 's life through the impact of the Word of God and the Spirit of God will know that it is not his own doing . |
| 18 | He should know that it is not the Government who take action in these matters , but the Attorney-General . |
| 19 | We do know that it was not until the late summer of 1965 that he gave private indications of his intention to stand for a second term , and not until 4 November that he made his decision public . |
| 20 | We do n't know if Fred Day 's claim is true ; we do know that he 's not alone in believing it to be . |
| 21 | His breathing is laboured in that heavy way which so often heralds the end , and as you grip his hand to let him know that he is not alone , you try to love him as the Lord himself would do . |
| 22 | Richard 's opening soliloquy ( which is also the opening text of the entire play ) must count as the clearest ‘ policy ’ statement of the tragedy principle in representation : Before this , Richard has let us know that he is not happy with the non-warring state of affairs and is set to provide destruction . |
| 23 | The male garden spider Araneus diadematus will vibrate a strand of the female 's web as he approaches her , to let her know that he is not just another small insect caught in the web . |
| 24 | ‘ You must know that I am not without artifice where magic is concerned , ’ said Weasel . |
| 25 | ‘ What do I know that I 'm not telling people ? ’ |
| 26 | I do know that I 'm not going to put up with it for one minute longer , though . |
| 27 | ‘ Ah , but you do n't know that I 'm not a poet , a flamenco dancer or an artist . ’ |
| 28 | You did ask a question earlier on and I think the the erm behind the question was the suggestion that erm the Local Authority Councillors we have on the governing bodies are a terrible interfering lot of bigots erm and erm surprisingly you might like to know that they 're not really . |
| 29 | The child needs to know that it is not his fault that everyone is so upset and that someone has died and he is not being punished . |
| 30 | ‘ Old enough , I think , to know that it is not . ’ |