Sentence examples for kind of acquaintance from inspiring English sources

Derrida's starting point was his rejection of a common model of knowledge and language, according to which understanding something requires acquaintance with its meaning, ideally a kind of acquaintance in which this meaning is directly present to consciousness.

Its classic statement, by Collingwood, was that the historian's "why?" is not "on what occasions?" but "what did he think, that made him do it?" Collingwood believed that the historian could rethink the thoughts of the actor (as one can work out the same geometrical reasoning as Pythagoras); thus, historical knowledge could be based on a kind of acquaintance.

On February 21, Roberto Saviano, Strega Prize winning author of Gomorra,the enormously successful exposé of organized crime in Naples, wrote an open letter to Ferrante, published in La repubblica: Dear Elena Ferrante, I write not as someone who knows you in person but as a reader, and I believe this is the kind of acquaintance you prefer.

He lay in bed at night, the moments before sleep a kind of stark acquaintance with death.

Sometimes this view is conjoined with the view that de re but not de dicto belief requires some kind of direct acquaintance with the object of belief.

Participants were also asked to list all friends "for whom you have contact details and with whom you consider that you have some kind of personal relationship (friend; acquaintance; someone you might interact with on a regular basis at school, work, or university)." This section of the questionnaire had the heading "Friends," and this term is also used here.

He is the kind of person, an acquaintance once said, who might press his jeans.

In his eloquent meditation on nature, "The Tree," the writer John Fowles confessed, "I like a kind of wandering wood acquaintance, and no more; a dilettante's, not a virtuoso's; always the green chaos rather than the printed map".

What kind of friends or acquaintances does it have?

Another kind of criticism of the Acquaintance Hypothesis is developed in Gertler (1999).

It is tempting to suppose that Russell equivocates between the relation of acquaintance and the special kind of knowledge of truth (foundational knowledge) whose sole source is acquaintance.