acquaintance

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Acquaintance is unmediated by other ways of knowing, including inference, so beliefs gained though acquaintance are non-inferential, which is what the foundationalist wants.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

Anyway, I have a great solution for this: Mail the folk art masterpieces to Grandma, Grandpa, Great-Aunt, Auntie, and Childfree Acquaintance.

From Slate • Nov. 2, 2020

He quickly got an agent and acted on Broadway in such productions as 2007's "Old Acquaintance" and the 2010 revival of Arthur Miller's "A View From the Bridge."

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 17, 2015

A new member is given the default settings of Friends, Family or Acquaintance and encouraged to create new circles under headings of their own choosing.

From BBC • Jul. 20, 2011

He was attended to the Place of Execution by a Minister, and saluted such of his Acquaintance as he saw mixed in the Crowd, with a Smile.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von