Sentence examples for acquaintance what from inspiring English sources

The obvious question now is: if all knowledge is ultimately based on acquaintance, what is it we can be acquainted with, i.e. what are the legitimate objects of acquaintance?

I recently asked an elderly acquaintance what he thought about when he was sitting in his Quaker meetinghouse.

I remember soon after I became a committed seeker in my early twenties being asked by a casual acquaintance what I "did".

She has since felt isolated and lonely, unable to tell new acquaintances what she endured.

It can be socially awkward to ask acquaintances what delicious fragrance they have on.

Curious, I asked friends and acquaintances what their birthday cake Sistine chapel was.

When Gavagan, now 38, turned down that fateful street, and stepped briefly into the house of a man recommended as a hockey coach by a couple of female acquaintances, what greeted him, he said, was "a young boy's dream come true".

Ask specific questions of your friends, family, and acquaintances: What is your strongest memory of me?

Nevertheless, at least as Lessing understood him, Spinoza also differentiated acquaintance with what is true from acquaintance with what is good and identified knowledge of the good with the "will" insofar as through it one thought does have a prerogative over another.

Second, we said above that noninferential knowledge is secured by acquaintance with truth makers, while inferential knowledge is secured by acquaintance with logical and probabilistic connections between the propositions known through acquaintance and what one infers from those propositions.

What I needed was an acquaintance, and what I wound up with was Jackie.