All this may seem to be a source of embarrassment for the acquaintance theorist, for how could doubts and disagreements arise regarding what is supposed to be immediately and transparently present to consciousness?
Mr. Starr made the acquaintance of Jacob Arabov, a Harry Winston for the music world.
Back in 1991, Bill Moyers made the acquaintance of two Milwaukee families for a documentary titled "Minimum Wages: The New Economy".
Next month, we will make the acquaintance of Tan Dun's Concerto for Water Percussion and Orchestra.
Thus, Gertler (2012) endorses the acquaintance approach for a limited class of introspective judgments, and leaves it open whether there could be other sources of noninferential justification.
Buyers were not wanting, but even then, as now, they universally liked lucky bargains; and the highest price offered to one of the acquaintances of Dandie Dinmont for the castings of his carefully tended ewes was two-and-twenty pence per head.
RIVERHEAD, N.Y., Oct. 25 - A year before R. Theodore Ammon, the Manhattan financier, was beaten to death in his East Hampton mansion, Daniel J. Pelosi told an acquaintance that he planned to kill Mr. Ammon, marry his wife and poach his $80 million fortune, the acquaintance, James Nicolino, testified for the prosecution here Monday.
"Winnie the Pooh" may not be a movie that grown-ups seek out on their own, but it may make some of them jealous of the 4-year-olds who are making the noble bear's acquaintance for the first time.
The concept of acquaintance, for them, is arguably the most fundamental concept on which all epistemology, and perhaps all philosophy of mind, is built.
This taxonomy of kinds of knowledge, Russell believes, can account both for the possibility of non-propositional and propositional knowledge and at the same time retain the claim as to the primacy of the acquaintance-relation for knowledge.
