Sentence examples for being acquainted with something from inspiring English sources

Given the first feature above, being acquainted with something is not to be understood in terms of having a belief or judgment about it, not even an infallible one.

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.

One cannot be acquainted with something that does not exist.

If you are considering whether you are acquainted with something, ask yourself whether you can conceive of being in this very state when the putative object does not exist.

His answer is to distinguish between knowing something by being acquainted with it through sensation and knowing something through a description.

It's being acquainted with a really interesting mind.

Becoming aware of one's watching a movie is analogous to becoming acquainted with one's being acquainted with pain, or becoming acquainted with one's being acquainted with a shade of red.

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.

However, the topic of that soliloquy — death, and how we deal with it — is, unfortunately, something that everyone is acquainted with.