Sentence examples for through acquaintance from inspiring English sources

Through acquaintance with certain Danish courtiers, he was named to accompany the mentally unstable Christian VII on a European tour (1768 69), a post that led to Struensee's appointment as court physician in 1769.

Inferential knowledge is secured by direct acquaintance with logical and probabilistic connections between the propositions known through acquaintance and other propositions.

But if one can convince oneself that there are real logical relations of making probable holding between propositions, then perhaps the acquaintance theorist can secure the required knowledge of those connections once again through acquaintance.

Second, we said above that noninferential knowledge is secured by acquaintance with truth makers, while inferential knowledge is secured by acquaintance with logical and probabilistic connections between the propositions known through acquaintance and what one infers from those propositions.

For even a slight difference between feeling cold and feeling not-cold will make a difference in the corresponding self-attributions.[2] The idea that we know our mental states through acquaintance with them is usually associated with Russell (1917), but such accounts trace their lineage at least to Descartes.

He liked to play up his own status as an autodidact but--probably through acquaintance with academic artists like Leon Gerome--Rousseau had a hard-to-get permit to copy in the Louvre.

Most people get at least some groceries or household goods through "acquaintances," or other improper means.

I heard through acquaintances that he continued to teach, and also got a job at a foundry.

Her mother found work in a drapery factory and through acquaintances was introduced to a widower with two sons who lived in Montreal.

As a result of these new challenges, casting directors have been forced to take a more inventive approach, essentially networking for talent through acquaintances.

Sociologist Mark Granovetter examined the importance of "weak ties" in his classic 1974 book "Getting a Job," in which he found that most people obtained their jobs through acquaintances, not close friends.