Shouldn't such denials raise serious doubts regarding acquaintance?
The fact that doubts and disagreements can arise regarding acquaintance or the given should not be too puzzling since not everything about the nature of the given is itself given, and, as Descartes observed long ago, one can easily raise doubts regarding what one can see most clearly and distinctly, at least while one is not attending directly to the appropriate ground or insight.
Fumerton regards acquaintance as a sui generis relation; it "cannot be informatively subsumed under a genus, and…cannot be analyzed into any less problematic concepts" (1995: 76).
A thoughtful idea is to hand write to the people closest to you and to print out a copy for people generally regarded as acquaintance.
But Porumboiu (who reveals, late in the film, his lifelong acquaintance with Ginghina) doesn't present his subject as a crank, and certainly not as a fool (although he openly expresses his skepticism regarding his friend's plans for soccer).
There seems to be some disagreement regarding the nature of acquaintance, e.g., whether it is fundamentally a relation between the self and the target of awareness, or an intrinsic, "built-in" aspect or feature of some mental states; and whether it consists in attention.
At the end of the program many participants talked about expectations from family members, friends, neighbors, and more distant acquaintances, expectations regarding other areas than work.
In End of Term, for example, Nicola Marlow regards her new acquaintance: "She still thought Esther awfully pretty - beautiful, she amended shyly - but she wouldn't really mind if she ended up in another form".
Here I present an interview with a clandestine chemist acquaintance whose curiosity regarding forbidden molecules left him locked in a cage.
Part of the Facebook patent describes other use cases as well, such as simply showing where friends are who have checked in nearby, but that is also part of the Dodgeball patent, which includes "a message generator to prepare messages to users regarding the locations of their acquaintances if those locations are proximate to the users".
The acquaintance approach is compatible with adverbialism regarding sense experience; one might be acquainted with experiential states, and with one's experiencing greenly, as opposed to being acquainted with some green object, and with its being green.
