Sentence examples for acquainted with something from inspiring English sources
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.
To be directly acquainted with something is to be in a position to give it a name in the strict logical sense, and to know something only by description is to know only that there is something that the description uniquely fits.
One cannot be acquainted with something that does not exist.
Clearly, I seem to be confronted or acquainted with something that I can introspectively examine carefully in real time and report on its various qualities.
He held the epistemological view that unless one is directly acquainted with something, one cannot use in thought or language a genuine 'logical' proper name referring to it.
He told me that meditation acquainted him with "something way, way beyond a material world view that I can't really talk to my colleagues about, because it involves metaphors or assumptions that I'm really uncomfortable with as a scientist".
His answer is to distinguish between knowing something by being acquainted with it through sensation and knowing something through a description.
John DaSilva, who covers horse racing for The New York Post and did some work connected to horse racing in Brazil, became acquainted with her, and became something of a mentor, too.
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).
If it is your very first time setting a goal like this, start off with reading something you are acquainted with.
