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He spoke with an acquaintance about acquiring the gas cutters and he also sent several coded messages to contacts in Pakistan from April 2002 to March 2003 to update them on the status of the project.
In order to guard against confusing acquaintance on the one hand with foundational knowledge of truths acquired by acquaintance on the other, and facilitate an examination of the relation between them, we should be more careful than Russell and restrict knowledge by acquaintance to foundational knowledge of truths.
To summarize: Russell's distinction between knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description is arguably best understood as a distinction between foundational knowledge of truths acquired by acquaintance and nonfoundational knowledge of truths that depend, ultimately, on foundational knowledge.
For classical foundationalists like Russell, all knowledge of truths ultimately depends on foundational knowledge of truths acquired by acquaintance.
Most of them also explicitly endorse classical foundationalism: like Russell, they hold that all knowledge or justified belief ultimately depends on a foundation of knowledge or justified belief acquired by acquaintance.
D. Salinger: A Writer Life") acquired from friends and acquaintances, and he returns frequently to the problem of writing about an author who wished to keep his life private.
Many also discover that the skills they acquired overseas, and the acquaintances they cultivated, are of little use to them now.
If you lingered by the silver menagerie, she would hand you the small elephant that she had acquired in 1968 through her acquaintance with Connie Mangskau, a Bangkok antique dealer.
Is knowledge acquired in this same sense from acquaintance with works of art?
