The phrase "acquaintance with something" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to someone's familiarity or knowledge about a particular subject or topic.
Example: "Her acquaintance with the latest technology trends makes her an asset to the team."
Alternatives: "familiarity with something" or "knowledge of something".
Acquaintance with something does not consist in forming any judgment or thought about it, or in having any concept or representation of it.
Even if there is no object between a chair and a table, the space between them is composed of other spaces, and in virtue of this we can compare different spaces or distances quantitatively; in contrast, acquaintance with something is not composed of further relations, and so different relations of acquaintance cannot be compared quantitatively in a parallel way.
The observation is correct (since acquaintance with something does not amount to a judgment, let alone a true judgment, about it), but it is irrelevant to the more sophisticated view according to which the acquaintance is only a constituent of the ground of propositional knowledge.
We have already seen that for Russell acquaintance is nonjudgmental or nonpropositional; to be acquainted with something is to be aware of it in a way that does not essentially involve being aware that it is so-and-so.
If I am acquainted with the proposition or thought that I am in pain then I am acquainted with something that has truth value, even though acquaintance itself is not to be understood as propositional in nature.
Adams dedicated Watership Down to his daughters Juliet and Rosamond, and always underplayed any claim to an intended allegory, saying: "I simply wrote down a story I told to my two little girls". On my first acquaintance with it, something that carried them on their journeys held, for me, a mythical nostalgia for a world I didn't know I was missing.
His remark about the bitterness of displaced workers supposedly made him an élitist; his glancing acquaintance with a sixty-something ex-Weatherman supposedly made him a friend of terrorists.
Familiarity is defined as ' close acquaintance with or knowledge about something '[ 27].
Start the letter with something like, 'My dearest acquaintance '.
Russell and many other acquaintance theorists also take themselves to be acquainted with facts, i.e., with something's having some property at least mental facts (e.g., my being in pain, my desiring food, my experiencing red).
Derrida's starting point was his rejection of a common model of knowledge and language, according to which understanding something requires acquaintance with its meaning, ideally a kind of acquaintance in which this meaning is directly present to consciousness.
