Talk:independent
Independent of/from/on
[edit]Are there any high-quality sources specifying whether to say "independent of" or "independent from" (or even "independent on")? It seems to me, anecdotally, that the most standard usage is
"A is independent of B. A has independence from B. The independence of A from B is obvious."
However, I've seen "independent from" and sometimes even "independent on" (which sounds slightly old-fashioned).
The following source has examples of "independent of" and "independent on", but doesn't explicitly endorse either one: http://triggs.djvu.org/century-dictionary.com/cent2jpgframes.php?volno=04&page=3055
I haven't found any high-quality external sources advocating "independence from", either implicitly or explicitly, even though this is surely correct. For a non-external source, the Wikipedia article on the Declaration of Independence always discusses the independence of the US from the British Empire: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Declaration_of_Independence Jmmolenick (talk) 15:24, 10 June 2024 (UTC)