He had, it seemed, locked onto his ideal subject: the ease with which acquaintance can slide into threat.
Let us use the label "acquaintance theory" broadly to stand for any view, in the philosophy of mind or epistemology, in which acquaintance so understood plays a central role.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy according to this protocol starts with one introductory session, in which acquaintance with the therapist is made, therapy conditions are explained and a treatment contract is signed by both the participant and the therapist.
But one of the keys to his turnaround seems to have been his succession of failures in politics and business, which acquaintances said humbled him and left him much more likable.
His appearances speaking to camera – horrifyingly echoed in his last, in the clutches of assassins apparently about to behead him – had the stamp of a showman, which acquaintances recalled from his teenage years, when he would perform freestyle raps at school talent shows.
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).
The man, Luis Solivan, 19, was later charged with assaulting an officer, but his case was dismissed after a grand jury watched the video, which an acquaintance shot through an apartment window in the Bronx, his lawyers say.
Now, on his way into the Fogg Art Museum, where many of the university's most valued timepieces were stored, he brushed past the security guard, refusing to open his bag, which one acquaintance described as "worthy of a bank robber".
It is best that Smith make reference to no names but 'Jones' & 'Brown-that by phone references be made as 'an acquaintance' unless Brown asks for the name, & that the only other pertinent personality reference for him to make would be to the 'personnel official in the part of the Agency in which 'my acquaintance' is employed.
High school & college brought him word of what the stars really were, how senselessly large & distant & numerous, but such intellectual shocks were cushioned by the distractions of coeducation--female bodies... Decades went by in which his acquaintance with the stars failed to advance.
The observation is correct (since acquaintance with something does not amount to a judgment, let alone a true judgment, about it), but it is irrelevant to the more sophisticated view according to which the acquaintance is only a constituent of the ground of propositional knowledge.
