In the end, John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln because, as he told an acquaintance, honoring those principles "means nigger citizenship".
Yet old fogey that I'm becoming, I do believe that people who write SF should have a nodding acquaintance with science principles and the scientific mindset.
According to Russell's well known "principle of acquaintance" in epistemology, in order to understand a proposition, one must be acquainted with the meaning of every simple symbol making it up (see, e.g., KAKD, 159).
Elementarism has sometimes been defended by appealing to something like Russell's principle of acquaintance, understood as the tenet that only things with which we are acquainted should be thought to exist, together with the claim that we are acquainted with first-order properties but not with those of any higher orders.
The Google Plus social network is built on the principle that all your friends and acquaintances should be sorted into groups, with whom you then share information.
An acquaintance with the history of texts and the principles of textual criticism is indispensable for the student of history, literature, or philosophy.
Although basic principles are explicit, interpretation of the MCDA scale requires acquaintance with the broad range of criteria that are incorporated in a single number.
(Aquinas has a similar view concerning the first principles of a demonstration of the highest sort. With acquaintance with the real definition of a substantial nature, one can simply see, intellectually, what its immediate powers are).
It seems to me more than ever in a democratic society based on scientific principles, people should be required to have at least a passing acquaintance with the system of thought that led to that society.
a The principle that individuals are all linked by short chains of connections and acquaintances.
