It’s worth being cautious here: just because a brain can generate an answer to a question doesn’t mean that it was actually storing that information. “I heard it somewhere” may just be the default response when no supporting evidence can be found.
But your examples here are valid—sometimes we really do remember X separately from the evidence in support of X. And if X is something important this is probably to be encouraged.
It’s worth being cautious here: just because a brain can generate an answer to a question doesn’t mean that it was actually storing that information. “I heard it somewhere” may just be the default response when no supporting evidence can be found.
But your examples here are valid—sometimes we really do remember X separately from the evidence in support of X. And if X is something important this is probably to be encouraged.