Sentence examples for classical acquaintance from inspiring English sources

On the classical acquaintance theory, knowledge of both truths has the same source acquaintance with facts.

For the classical acquaintance theorist, that question, in turn, reduces to the question of how we can acquire knowledge through inference.

In a somewhat related objection, Sosa (2003) and Markie (2009) have both resurrected the old problem of the speckled hen, or more precisely the appearance presented by a speckled hen, for the classical acquaintance conception of noninferential justification.

Therefore, the classical foundationalist's acquaintance or direct awareness cannot serve as a foundational source of knowledge or justified belief.

She was, in the words of one admirer, "a very old soul in a very young body," and part of that oldness was a dedication to — and a scholarly acquaintance with — the classical canon of jazz.

This takes us to another classical version of foundationalism, the acquaintance theory.

However, unless otherwise indicated, we use "acquaintance theory" and "classical foundationalism" interchangeably.

Moser thus aims to defend a form of foundationalism that is classical in its commitment to acquaintance or the given, and yet "moderate" not only in holding that some noninferentially justified beliefs can be false, but also that some external world beliefs can be noninferentially justified.

There are consistent ways to accept acquaintance theory without accepting classical foundationalism.

As we shall see, proponents of classical foundationalism typically ascribe other important philosophical roles to acquaintance.

Classical versions of foundationalism about justification hold that foundational beliefs are justified by acquaintance.