Indeed, as we have seen, some acquaintance theorists hold that one is acquainted with or directly aware of all intrinsic sensory or phenomenal features of one's experience, including specific shades of color.
We can trace the fundamental source of Russell's restrictivism about acquaintance to the claim that one is acquainted only with that for which misidentification is rationally impossible.
First, it no longer seems that Russell and Price's criterion that is reminiscent of the method of doubt is a very good method for determining what one is acquainted with, for there will be some objects of acquaintance that are susceptible to some degree of doubt.
This worry is sometimes put in terms of acquaintance: the specific way in which the thinker is acquainted with the referent of her thought in using phenomenal concepts does not seem to be captured by the demonstrative account (see Levine 2007).
As we have seen (section 3), acquaintance theorists typically add conditions that make the fact with which one is acquainted directly relevant to the truth of some thought or belief e.g., by requiring awareness of the correspondence or fit (or perhaps some other relation) between the thought and the fact, or by requiring that the fact constitute part of the content of the belief.
Johnson is acquainted with cancer – it killed both his wife and Brilleaux.
She is acquainted with her only because of an anatomy class.
He is acquainted with the other regional realists with whom he is grouped.
Mr. Strasberg, 43, is acquainted with MDC because he worked at Crispin Porter & Bogusky before joining Doner in 2008.
Paul Raeburn's most recent book is Acquainted with the Night, a memoir of raising children with depression and bipolar disorder.
He's noticing something in Jim's own character that is acquainted with vice, with greed, with the idea of being fallen.
