By that winter, as acquaintance grew into courtship, the cadre, Xi Zhongxun, would ask the seventeen-year-old Qi to marry him, though not before requesting of his young bride a confession-style "autobiography" first.
Noopor Tiwari, a journalist based in Paris, writes that in concentrating on stories like the Delhi gang rape, the Indian media risk making other, more common forms of rape, such as acquaintance rape or marital rape, seem less serious.
However, like him, they are all committed to the existence and philosophical significance of a direct, nonjudgmental form of awareness (indeed, many of them call it "acquaintance") and this warrants treating them all as "acquaintance theorists".
So, to the extent that there is an objection or problem with the fact that some deny that there is such a thing as acquaintance, a similar problem seems to afflict most any other philosophical theory.
As was noted above, it has been argued (most famously by Sellars 1963) that even if there were such a thing as acquaintance with individuals, properties, or facts, that relation wouldn't give one knowledge of truths.
However, if the analogy is apt, the opponent might see it as a reason to doubt that the acquaintance relation is really there, for once we reflect on whether we are watching a movie it is almost always easy to determine whether we are, but the opponent has no easy time finding any such relation as acquaintance or direct awareness.
Two other witnesses also linked Mr. Steuerman to Mr. McCready as acquaintances.
Hunt and the officers who shot him were listed as acquaintances.
Designating people as "acquaintances" tells Facebook to only show their "important" updates, which cuts down on their communication.
Social media poured in with reactions from people who identified them as acquaintances from schools and universities.
The window has been open since the first season of the series, when the trio were briefly introduced as acquaintances of Agent Mulder (Mr. Duchovny).
