Sentence examples for direct acquaintance 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.

They have almost no direct acquaintance with right-wing protestant preaching as theatre of the absurd.

Chief among these is the appeal to religious experience a personal, direct acquaintance with God or an experience of God mediated through a religious tradition.

Most New Yorkers, conditioned as we are to the modes and key systems of Western European music, know the sound of Byzantine chant more by reputation than by direct acquaintance.

She now steps back to a period of Kerouac's life with which she has no direct acquaintance, tracing the story from his origins in a French Canadian family in Lowell, Mass., to New York in 1951, where the book ends with a rare citation from ­Kerouac's journals: "I'm lost, but my work is found".

Evidently a subscriber to the view that "the historian should possess a pair of stout walking shoes", he uses an array of written sources and a direct acquaintance with physical features of land and water to create a richly compelling narrative.The cherished paradigm of the German landscape was forest, "der deutsche Wald".

Wright claims that the traditional Cartesian sceptical argument does not rely on the impossibility of direct perceptual acquaintance with the world.

As dispositions of perception, these virtues have the value of putting their possessor in direct perceptual acquaintance with moral aspects of reality: her indebtedness for gifts, the evil of her actions and the forgiveness of God, and the distress of her fellows and the relation of that distress to the life of Christ.

"Among other things, Mr. Sterling disparaged African-Americans and 'minorities'; directed a female acquaintance not to associate publicly with African-Americans or to bring African-Americans to Clippers games; and criticized African-Americans for not supporting their communities," the NBA said.

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

What is important for our purposes is that none of these views take the reference-fixing to be done purely by acquaintance or direct awareness.