The phrase "a form of acquaintance" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a type or level of familiarity or relationship between individuals.
Example: "While we are not close friends, we have developed a form of acquaintance through our mutual interests."
Alternatives: "a type of familiarity" or "a kind of relationship".
We have seen that, for Russell, like Strawson, demonstrative identification plays a crucial role, in the form of acquaintance.
They may attempt in this way to accommodate the intuition that we are conscious of or aware of a great deal more than we attend to or notice, while insisting that this attention or noticing is a nonjudgmental awareness that secures its object a form of acquaintance in our sense.
Analytically, it may seem to us that the reverse is true because our encounter with things and events takes the phenomenal form of acquaintance with the form and essence of that thing first.
Moreover, perhaps the fact that acquaintance is a form of awareness of the most direct, most secure kind, and is fundamental to all knowledge of truths, led Russell to think it deserves to be called "knowledge" of the thing in question.
In short, the attempt to identify intuition as a form of knowledge is simply a conflation of knowledge with acquaintance, of unelaborated, direct perception or sensation with conceptual knowledge, of kennen with erkennen (Schlick 2009, Sec. 12).
They form a network of acquaintances, which he defines as people who share a working trust even though they are not good friends.
WHEN Rosanne Kalick learned she had a second form of cancer, she remembered, one acquaintance's response was, "If anyone should have this, it's you".
But when circumstances, in the form of a mutual acquaintance played by Tony Randall, bring them face to face, Brad falls hard for Jan's frosty beauty and sets out to lure her into bed, hiding his real identity behind the hastily contrived persona of a shy Texan.
In Southern and Eastern Europe, air kissing is a common form of greeting between friends and acquaintances.
But he becomes seized with a passion to form the acquaintance of philosophers and dilettanti.
Most sophisticated versions of classical foundationalism are perhaps best understood as grasping the nonpropositional horn of the dilemma, since acquaintance is a nonpropositional form of awareness.
