Sentence examples similar to was acquainted with first from inspiring English sources

Elementarism has sometimes been defended by appealing to something like Russell's principle of acquaintance, understood as the tenet that only things with which we are acquainted should be thought to exist, together with the claim that we are acquainted with first-order properties but not with those of any higher orders.

Tobias Böhm's ingenious suggestion (2002) that for Origen the being of God is his nous, and his unity that which is higher than nous, assumes that he was acquainted with the first and second hypotheses of the Parmenides, a dialogue of which he evinces little knowledge in his extant works.

It is less clear if Hume learned it from Newton because there is no evidence that he was acquainted with Newton's fourth rule of reasoning (added to the third edition of the Principia); there is no equivalent in Hume's rules of reasoning to Newton's fourth rule.

Rouass was acquainted with the series, having viewed the first two series and "dipped in and out of it".

Additionally, since the first author was acquainted with the participants, either they may have provided less information assuming he was already familiar with the settings or they could have provided favourable responses to demonstrate their achievements.

Before the fMRI scan, each subject was acquainted with the reflex areas on the base of the second and third toe of their feet by an instructor.

He was acquainted with grief.

Momii denied he was acquainted with Abe.

Thomas Hobbes was acquainted with both Bacon and Galileo.

"This is the woman whom I was acquainted with".

"I assume you were acquainted with her?" says the first man.