"We're acquainted with the Under-Secretary.
We know, we are acquainted with your rites.
"We are acquainted with a mere pellicle of the globe on which we live," writes Thoreau, "We know not where we are".
We are acquainted with a woman whose station wagon brakes failed one morning as she was nearing the busiest street on Martha's Vineyard.
We are acquainted with an interesting and puzzling realm of experience: the realm of the beautiful, the ugly, the sublime, and the elegant; of taste, criticism, and fine art; and of contemplation, sensuous enjoyment, and charm.
But the act of recollecting differs from that of remembering, not only chronologically, but also in this, that many also of the other animals (as well as man) have memory, but, of all that we are acquainted with, none, we venture to say, except man, shares in the faculty of recollection.
In the most recent version, Roman Polanski's "The Pianist," we are acquainted with the fate of an upper-bourgeois family in Warsaw from 1939 to 1945, and particularly with the story of the family's musical son, Wladyslaw (or Wladek) Szpilman, a real-life piano virtuoso and composer who regularly played Chopin on Polish radio.
Although our perceptual experiences seem to grant us an acquaintance with the facing surfaces of material objects, sensa are the only items we are acquainted with.
This is so because of his sense-datum theory, according to which what is immediately present to us, i.e., what we are acquainted with when we are acquainted with particulars, are just sense-data and not objects in the sense of individual things with qualities standing in relations to each other.
