Most sophisticated versions of classical foundationalism are perhaps best understood as grasping the nonpropositional horn of the dilemma, since acquaintance is a nonpropositional form of awareness.
The observation is correct (since acquaintance with something does not amount to a judgment, let alone a true judgment, about it), but it is irrelevant to the more sophisticated view according to which the acquaintance is only a constituent of the ground of propositional knowledge.
I've been thinking about this ever since an acquaintance referred to extreme noise in restaurants as "legal age discrimination".
Every time I prepare for another embed with the American Army in Afghanistan–I'm now on my fourth since July 2007 some acquaintances ask, does the U.S. Army really do any good there?
Her life became far less orderly when she started going out with Mr. McAlinden, an acquaintance since grade school.
You can't eat a meal like this with a passing acquaintance since you'll be together for hours, but you can't go with somebody you really want to talk to, either, since there's little time between courses for sustained conversation.
You can read his long screed or simply read this distillation from a post by David Appell on Quark Soup: They're worse (meaning Heartland) ~1500 words Gleick was wrong: 27 words Journalist scum! ~1000 words I've known Gleick as a source and acquaintance since I first quoted him in 1988, which made it very hard to write the piece on Monday.
It was her good fortune to make his acquaintance, since he certainly encouraged her interest in philosophy.
Perhaps most important of all, both cases clearly allow for and rely upon acts of direct acquaintance, since illumination is, above all, meant to be an account of the conditions necessary for the mind to have direct acquaintance with intelligible objects.
Whenever he is at home during Yotsuba's visits, the little girl seems to be extra courteous towards him and appears to put on her best behavior even though Mr. Ayase has treated her like a member of the family ever since their first acquaintance.
Mr. Andersen, speaking by telephone from Denver where he was on a tour for his novel "Heyday," said that since Mr. Sicha, an acquaintance, had left, he had stopped reading Gawker.
