We have seen that, for Russell, like Strawson, demonstrative identification plays a crucial role, in the form of acquaintance.
Analytically, it may seem to us that the reverse is true because our encounter with things and events takes the phenomenal form of acquaintance with the form and essence of that thing first.
They may attempt in this way to accommodate the intuition that we are conscious of or aware of a great deal more than we attend to or notice, while insisting that this attention or noticing is a nonjudgmental awareness that secures its object a form of acquaintance in our sense.
Recently, more sophisticated forms of the acquaintance theory have been developed, and responses to central objections offered.
But when circumstances, in the form of a mutual acquaintance played by Tony Randall, bring them face to face, Brad falls hard for Jan's frosty beauty and sets out to lure her into bed, hiding his real identity behind the hastily contrived persona of a shy Texan.
And not only does Schopenhauer equate our experience of ourselves "from the inside" as desire-driven will with our own ultimate reality, our character as things in themselves; he also argues that we have no choice but to think of the underlying reality of all appearance in this way, because this is our only form of insight into or acquaintance with anything as a thing in itself.
They form a network of acquaintances, which he defines as people who share a working trust even though they are not good friends.
The usual form of address in Russian among acquaintances, neighbours, colleagues at work, and inclusive superiors is by the given name and the patronymic.
Rickman's style shows more knowledge of the outward form of Gothic architecture than real acquaintance with or concern for its spirit.
WHEN Rosanne Kalick learned she had a second form of cancer, she remembered, one acquaintance's response was, "If anyone should have this, it's you".
Washington accepted, writing to Braddock's principal aide, Captain Robert Orme, "I wish for nothing more earnestly, than to attain a small degree of knowledge in the Military Art", and that the position would provide him "a good opportunity... of forming an acquaintance which may be serviceable hereafter, if I can find it worth while pushing my Fortune in the Military way".
