BonJour's view of acquaintance seems to explain why, as proponents of the acquaintance approach tend to hold, one cannot be acquainted with external world objects or external world facts (BonJour 2001: 31).
In fact, Russell's (1911, 1919) held a dual view of acquaintance: on the one hand, he thought that acquaintance is a relation that can only hold between someone's mind and his or her own sense data.
On the other hand, Fumerton's relational view of acquaintance, like the traditional Russellian view, seems to allow for the possibility of acquaintance with abstract entities such as universals, which some acquaintance theorists appeal to in order to make sense of the possibility of thought and a priori knowledge (see section 4).
Poor thing, he said we'd be saving his life – the Soviets were at his place on a secret holiday that was meant to be good for them, and no one must ever find out what they were doing here, because otherwise they would do something to him that no one would ever find out about… "Despite doubts of a moral and aesthetic nature, in view of her old acquaintance my mother did however agree.
Second, a view that accepts the possibility of acquaintance with universals seems able to explain not only how knowledge is possible, but also how thought itself is possible, and how a thought can be about something else.
I recently offered my cheated-upon view of things to my acquaintance, who has returned every night for a week to that hotel because he cannot bear to look at his wife.
We turn to this question in section 3. First, however, let us briefly discuss contemporary views regarding the nature and objects of acquaintance.
Her second, "The Woman Who Walked on Water" (1996), about a rich, middle-aged woman in thrall to an Indian guru, is told from the point of view of the spiritual seeker's acquaintance.
This view of how we get from acquaintance to noninferential knowledge or justified belief is problematic, however.
Unless, as Facebook intends, such pages already look feeble, to many of its clients, if they do not reflect its debased, numerical view of friendship, featuring contributions from chance acquaintances, friends of friends, complete strangers who saw it in the news or noticed on a site such as the old mydeathspace.com (which used to direct interested trolls to memorial pages).
Though the connection to acquaintance is not explicit there, in more recent work Gertler defends the same view as an "acquaintance approach" to introspective knowledge, so called because it is inspired by Russell's theory of acquaintance (2011, 2012).
