Sentence examples for acquaintance and knowledge from inspiring English sources

Eight hundred years later, Russell would develop an epistemological theory based on a similar distinction between knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description, though he would have vigorously denied that the distinction could be used to show that God exists.

He said that at one point in his dismal career as a philosophy minor in college he learned that some turn-of-the-century epistemologist asserted that there is a fundamental distinction between what he called knowledge of a thing by acquaintance and knowledge of it by experience.

He recognizes two kinds of knowledge of things: knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description.

Historically, the distinction between knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description is made between two kinds of knowledge.

Russell responded at a meeting three months later, on March 10 , 1911 delivering "Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description".

This became particularly clear when he authored his (1910 11) paper "Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description".

Schlick expended considerable effort discussing the differences between intuitive acquaintance and conceptual knowledge, insisting that, even though intuitive images are real, acquaintance with them does not constitute knowledge.

The centerpiece of Schlick's early epistemology is a deep cleavage between intuitive acquaintance and conceptual knowledge.

Skillful politicians will remember these acquaintances, and this knowledge of local concerns will stick with them when they get to the White House.

As Charles Fried, law professor at Harvard, wrote in The Times on Saturday, "Skillful politicians will remember these acquaintances, and this knowledge of local concerns will stick with them when they get to the White House".

For example, some might agree that we do have some knowledge by acquaintance and appeal to such knowledge in the dualism debate in the philosophy of mind (see the entry on qualia: the knowledge argument), without endorsing the claim that all knowledge or justified belief must depend, ultimately, on acquaintance.