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However, he later denies that we have acquaintance with the self (see Russell 1914: part III).
He says that acquaintance with the self is "hard to disentangle from other things," but tentatively concludes that "it is probable, though not certain, that we have acquaintance with Self" (1912: 78 81).
Knowledge by acquaintance obtains whenever "we have acquaintance with anything of which we are directly aware, without the intermediary of any process of inference or any knowledge of truths" (The Problems of Philosophy, 46).
Most philosophers wedded to some notion of acquaintance end up rejecting the idea that we have acquaintance even of bread-box sized objects, immediately before us, under ideal conditions of perception.
The problem is that error is always a possibility, and this concern propelled Russell to minimize the class of cases where we have acquaintance and thus to extending the theory of descriptions to almost all uses of names.
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As we saw above in discussing inferential knowledge, some acquaintance theorists already accept that we can have acquaintance with entailment relations and, more controversially, epistemic probability relations between propositions.
To find suitable estimation method of the model parameters, it is necessary to have acquaintance about the mathematical structure of f i (t; β i ).
By contrast, one can have acquaintance with items that are not truths, items that cannot be said to be true or false.
We have included acquaintance, friend, and post joining jihad relations, but the algorithm does not differentiate between them.
Finally, there may be viruses that we have no acquaintance with as yet.
Since it is things with which we have direct acquaintance that are the least questionable members of our ontology, it is these objects upon which Russell ultimately bases his epistemology.
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