The phrase "acquaintance is not" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the nature or limitations of an acquaintance in contrast to a closer relationship.
Example: "While we share a friendly rapport, I must clarify that acquaintance is not the same as friendship."
Alternatives: "a mere acquaintance is not" or "an acquaintance does not equate to".
But some say a parent's suggestion to spend Saturday night with the upstanding son of a business acquaintance is not the same as meddling in college admissions or helping complete a term paper to beef up a grade.
Familiarity, after all, is a double-edged sword: the more frequently a work is heard, the more inevitable comparisons become, and the more acutely an ensemble must justify its selection to listeners for whom repeated acquaintance is not always a virtue.
If there is a solution to the dilemma presented by Sellars (and others) it is to emphasize that acquaintance is not by itself an epistemic relation.
Though the connection to acquaintance is not explicit there, in more recent work Gertler defends the same view as an "acquaintance approach" to introspective knowledge, so called because it is inspired by Russell's theory of acquaintance (2011, 2012).
We said earlier that acquaintance is not itself judgmental or propositional, and so does not have truth value it is a form of awareness of something, not awareness that something is so-and-so.
A 'nodding acquaintance' isn't good enough for risking those homemade popcorn balls.
Rape by an acquaintance was not seen as "real rape" (Estrich 1987) and was made virtually impossible to prove by strict corroboration requirements and other rules of evidence.
Lynchburg is a city of churches — it has over a hundred of them — and the first question people ask of new acquaintances is not what they do but what church they attend.
Making friends and acquaintances is not a random act for kangaroos, instead they actively choose who they mix with and how often.
The sculptor had used an acquaintance of his as a model for the statue, even though the acquaintance wasn't an Indian — the sculptor just happened to think the man had a good Indian-like build.
The sculptor had used an acquaintance of his as a model for the statue, even though the acquaintance wasn't an Indian the sculptor just happened to think the man had a good Indian-like build.
