Sentence examples for out of acquaintance from inspiring English sources

But how exactly do we get noninferential knowledge or justified belief out of acquaintance?

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?

Mark Scott, vice president for marketing at HomeBanc, a mortgage company in Atlanta, recalls how an out-of-work business acquaintance set up a breakfast appointment with him, then arrived 30 minutes late and split the check with him.

When I found out an acquaintance of mine was getting under the radar testosterone shots, I was relieved, because in my warped mind it meant he wasn't working any harder than I was at staying in shape.

I dragged the rest out of brothers, brothers-in-law and friends.' The first issue was handed out to acquaintances.

In what felt like an out-of-body experience, I watched helplessly as acquaintances took sides.

There are gratuitous sex scenes and shout-outs to acquaintances, discussions of favoured writers and unhinged digressions.

By Lois Long The New Yorker, November 19 , 1938P. 35 "It was on the morning of April 16, 1934, that a burly fellow, named Sylvester, forgot that he was a man about town to the extent of knocking out an acquaintance at el Morocco.... .. View Article By Miranda Carter By Amos Barshad By John Cassidy By Atul Gawande.

Fumerton (1995: 75) replies that while acquaintance itself is nonpropositional, that does not rule out that propositions or thoughts are objects of acquaintance or constituents of objects of acquaintance, and if one is acquainted with a relation of correspondence between a thought and a fact, that would seem to provide all the justification one could need or want.

Too many of my waking hours were spent fantasizing scenes in which Patrick and I somehow met outside the classroom and our relationship developed out of distant acquaintance into passionate amour.

Bigger stories are made out of longer acquaintance with fact and character, but I also love the tiny stories in which almost everything has to be inferred and imagined.