Sentence examples for if acquaintance from inspiring English sources

Moore also is very well aware that his view of the nature of concepts commits him to the claim that the world insofar as it is an object of propositional knowledge consists of concepts because these are the only things one can be acquainted with if acquaintance is a condition of knowledge.

If acquaintance is nothing like a judgment or belief, and if the items with which we are acquainted are themselves neither true nor false, how do we get any knowledge of truths out of acquaintance?

A relation of acquaintance seems to provide just what is needed here: if acquaintance is a relation that one can stand in to one's experience or to some feature of the experience, that would account for the possibility of having an experience of something, like a pain or some other sensation, temporarily failing to notice it, and then noticing it again.

If acquaintance with correspondence is a source of noninferential justification, then perhaps acquaintance with these relations of incompatibility can be a source of noninferential justification for disbelieving these propositions, or for believing their negations believing that the figure is not green, that it is not a circle, and that it is not five-sided respectively.

If acquaintance is a "built-in" feature of conscious states in virtue of which one can be aware only of intrinsic features of that very state, then on the plausible assumption that ordinary physical objects and their intrinsic features are not intrinsic features of mental states, one cannot have acquaintance with such objects or their features.

It's not illegal to persuade someone to donate money to an opera house (it would be different if your acquaintance were operating on behalf of the opera's board, or if the opera facility didn't actually exist — but that's not how you described the transaction).

If your acquaintance is among the former, give him the letter.

If your acquaintance had been given a name like "Grementine" or "Tootie," I doubt it would soon be forgotten.

Once, I asked Kenny if an acquaintance of mine who'd been eighty-sixed some years before but greatly missed the place and its proprietors could come in for lunch with me sometime.

The report said that an informant described how a "Jamaican that works in the store" had been asking before the killing if an acquaintance could find him a partner for an inside job at the store.

If your acquaintance with "Breakfast at Tiffany's" is limited to Blake Edwards's madcap 1961 movie version, which featured Audrey Hepburn at her most airily elfin and soignée, you may be startled by how somber the same story feels in this retelling, directed by Sean Mathias with a script by Richard Greenberg.