Sentence examples for principle of acquaintance from inspiring English sources

According to Russell's well known "principle of acquaintance" in epistemology, in order to understand a proposition, one must be acquainted with the meaning of every simple symbol making it up (see, e.g., KAKD, 159).

Elementarism has sometimes been defended by appealing to something like Russell's principle of acquaintance, understood as the tenet that only things with which we are acquainted should be thought to exist, together with the claim that we are acquainted with first-order properties but not with those of any higher orders.

Some acquaintance theorists seem to disagree about the nature of acquaintance.

The distinction lies with the objects of acquaintance.

What about the possibility of acquaintance with ourselves?

This arrangement was preferred to avoid possibilities of acquaintance between the interviewer and interviewee.

Lack of acquaintance with research methodology was reported as a hindrance by 50% doctors.

Blackman and Funder [ 5] explain the effect of acquaintance on accuracy in personality judgements as follows.

This was followed by lack of acquaintance with research methodology for no publications (50%).

In order to provide convincing evidence for an effect of acquaintance, two different conditions are employed.

"Fundamental principle of equal sovereignty"?