It's also worth noting that although talk of acquaintance often brings sense-datum theory to mind, there is nothing about the commitment to acquaintance itself that entails such a commitment.
Fumerton (1995: 75) replies that while acquaintance itself is nonpropositional, that does not rule out that propositions or thoughts are objects of acquaintance or constituents of objects of acquaintance, and if one is acquainted with a relation of correspondence between a thought and a fact, that would seem to provide all the justification one could need or want.
These days, the word 'terrorism' is as commonplace and everyday as toast or utility bills; this casual acquaintance lends itself to generalisations and assumptions.
Erikson, who initially made the term "identity" an important concept in his work on psychoanalytic theory and character pathology, referred to W. James by stressing on the importance of the "conscious sense of individual uniqueness", the "I" in its spontaneous, self-evident acquaintance with itself matching the "unconscious striving for a continuity of experience" [ 23], p. 208.
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.
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.
This finding might suggest that quarantine itself, independent of acquaintance with or exposure to someone with SARS, may be perceived as a personalized trauma.
He considered seeking venture capital backing, but another solution presented itself when a professional acquaintance, John Brupbacher, moved from a competing company to Johns Hopkins to establish the Center for Nondestructive Evaluation in 2002.
A pain or itch that is known by acquaintance is grasped through accessible evidence: the painfulness or itchiness itself.
This is the one unchallengeable characteristic of writing itself, whether you are collaborating with a colleague or acquaintance or you're actually communicating to no one at all (a grocery list, for example).
For Russell, while there are thoughts about particulars that are wholly qualitative and wholly general, the paradigm form our thought about external reality takes is ultimately grounded in acquaintance, albeit acquaintance with sense data as opposed to extra-mental reality itself.
