Sentence examples for for the acquaintance from inspiring English sources

Dialectically, there seems to be no way for the acquaintance theorist to reject this opposing position without begging the question.

All this may seem to be a source of embarrassment for the acquaintance theorist, for how could doubts and disagreements arise regarding what is supposed to be immediately and transparently present to consciousness?

For a critique of the acquaintance theorist's attempt to accommodate fallibility at the foundations, see Huemer 2007 and Poston 2010.

As for the acquaintances who sided with my rapist, I felt angry and disillusioned.

Despite the setbacks, I am grateful for some of the acquaintances I made.

"Jews have no respect for their city, for their birthplace," the acquaintance argues.

We staggered out at the end of our meal richer for having made the acquaintance of a great local restaurant (well, local to us, at any rate).

This taxonomy of kinds of knowledge, Russell believes, can account both for the possibility of non-propositional and propositional knowledge and at the same time retain the claim as to the primacy of the acquaintance-relation for knowledge.

He has known the acquaintance for 15 years, the complaint says.

"They lived a very good life, and nobody knows what his source for compensation was," said the acquaintance, who added that Hifter's family was not originally wealthy.

He was also writing a column for The Houston Post and making the acquaintance of Senator Lyndon Johnson, who turned into a kind of enormous dowry when Valenti married one of Johnson's most devoted aides.