Sentence examples for while acquaintance from inspiring English sources

While acquaintance accounts construe self-knowledge as strikingly distinctive in its directness and epistemic security, inner sense accounts take the opposite tack: they construe introspection as similar to perception in crucial respects.

Fumerton (1995: 75) replies that while acquaintance itself is nonpropositional, that does not rule out that propositions or thoughts are objects of acquaintance or constituents of objects of acquaintance, and if one is acquainted with a relation of correspondence between a thought and a fact, that would seem to provide all the justification one could need or want.

After a while the acquaintance in Leicester asked him to leave, saying that he and his wife needed their privacy.

For a while, an acquaintance of the man kept him company, but he eventually wished him good luck and left.

The police identified him as a right-wing fundamentalist Christian, while acquaintances described him as a gun-loving Norwegian obsessed with what he saw as the threats of multiculturalism and Muslim immigration.

But while acquaintances of mine are getting the fat sucked out of their thighs and put into their lips, I can't escape the wrath of these relentless tics.

While acquaintances culled from a wide circle may not be as motivated as close friends are to lend a hand, they will do so because "often it is not very costly for them to share information" about jobs, Professor Granovetter said.

It makes sense to propagate those activities to close friends as fast as possible while acquaintances only receive those updates a few hours later.

Chen's old friend Little Xi is dissatisfied, distrustful and increasingly disturbed by a strange amnesia that seems to have gripped the population, while another acquaintance insists an entire month has gone missing from the country's collective memory.

The latest missive from Modular is that it simply "sounds awesome, but there's no dates or anything planned", while an acquaintance of the band responded with "Who the shit knows?" when I pressed for even a rough timeframe.

And in another case of violence toward toddlers in New York City, 3-year-old Tharell Edward was shot in the head and wounded on 24 August as he slept in his family's Brooklyn apartment while an acquaintance was looking after him.