Sentence examples for be directly acquainted with from inspiring English sources

It allows for persons to be directly acquainted with experiences, and it is this direct acquaintance, rather than any causal relation, that justifies our beliefs about experiences.

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.

Can an individual be directly acquainted with him or herself?

I can't be directly acquainted with the fact that P while I believe P falsely.

One might be directly acquainted with the fact that one is being appeared to many-speckledly without being acquainted with the fact that one is appeared to 48-speckledly.

It need not be part of the acquaintance theorist's view that in being directly acquainted with an experience one is directly acquainted with all aspects of the experience.

If you can, you should reject the suggestion that you are directly acquainted with the item in question.

On this view, when I see an apple, I directly perceive, or am directly acquainted with, the apple and its qualities such as its redness.

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.

In that paper, Russell distinguished between objects that we are directly acquainted with and objects that we only know under a description.

The first question might seem more difficult for the naturalist than for some non-naturalists; if goodness really is a sui generis non-natural property then perhaps being directly acquainted with it is sufficient for recognizing it as moral.