(Aquinas has a similar view concerning the first principles of a demonstration of the highest sort. With acquaintance with the real definition of a substantial nature, one can simply see, intellectually, what its immediate powers are).
A friend recently spent a substantial portion of a night out making out with a man we'd recently made the acquaintance of and who we'd all presumed was gay.
It can be more difficult to see our own institutions of higher learning in that same context of power and abdication of responsibility – and surely there are innumerable, substantial differences, particularly between rape as a war crime and acquaintance assault.
These local opinion leaders are generally unknown outside their own circle of friends and acquaintances, but their cumulative influence in the formation of public opinion is substantial.
Under American law, copyright holders have a right to control the performance of a work at any "place open to the public or at a place where a substantial number of persons outside of a normal circle of a family and its social acquaintances are gathered".
Some critics charge that acquaintance accounts construe introspective beliefs as too close to their objects to qualify as genuine, substantial knowledge.
"My impression was that he had very substantial contacts on Wall Street, with private equity firms and hedge funds," said Bertram Fields, an entertainment lawyer who has represented Michael Jackson and the Beatles, and is an acquaintance of Mr. Starr's.
"Delete them," the acquaintance responded.
One Facebook acquaintance suggested "cinesthesia".
