Some opponents may actually accept that something like acquaintance exists but doubt that it can provide much, if any, justification for our beliefs; in denying that they have found anything like acquaintance, it may be that they mean only to deny that they have found a relation of acquaintance that can make a significant difference to the epistemic justification of our beliefs.
If you do not have a family member, friend, or acquaintance that can help, check for local quilter's clubs, guilds, or organizations--check your local fabric shop for information or contacts.
Bryce Ryness is Phileas Fogg, the traveler who bets acquaintances that he can circumnavigate the globe in 80 days.
Stay socially active and keep a log of female acquaintances that you can call on to spend time with.
Those competitors allowed their networks to bloat with acquaintances, family and colleagues that can make people less comfortable openly sharing.
In fact, Russell's (1911, 1919) held a dual view of acquaintance: on the one hand, he thought that acquaintance is a relation that can only hold between someone's mind and his or her own sense data.
You are not the first person who has told me about using racial cues to procure seats on public transportation: A female acquaintance once mentioned that she can usually find a freshly vacated seat on the F train if she stands next to a certain type of person just before a specific stop in Manhattan.
As we saw above in discussing inferential knowledge, some acquaintance theorists already accept that we can have acquaintance with entailment relations and, more controversially, epistemic probability relations between propositions.
In response to the first problem, the acquaintance theorist can agree that in order to be justified it is not enough that the subject be acquainted with a fact that happens to correspond to what is believed.
A relation of acquaintance seems to provide just what is needed here: if acquaintance is a relation that one can stand in to one's experience or to some feature of the experience, that would account for the possibility of having an experience of something, like a pain or some other sensation, temporarily failing to notice it, and then noticing it again.
