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Acquaintance: direct handling and contact with a subject matter about which statements are to be made as a basis for knowledge. Antonym to knowledge through description.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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Christopher Peacocke on Acquaintance - Dictionary of Arguments

I 180ff
Acquaintance/Russell: via sense-data, resulting in complexes (aRb), immediate memory, universals.
Objects are found as a component in thought.
>Objects of thought
, >Complexes, >Relation, >Picture theory, >Sense data, >Universals, >Memory.
PeacockeVsRussell: we reinterpret that: the object specifies the type of the way of givennes.
Objects appear intensionally in thought, not extensionally.
>Objects (material things), >Thoughts, >Content, >Intensions, >Extensions, >Way of givenness.
We think of objects as a characteristics of a type of a way of givenness in causal antecedents and consequences of thoughts.
>Type/Token, >Causality, >Perception, >World/thinking.
A descriptive explanation of action or a possible world requires no acquaintance. ((s) E.g. the winner has won the prize.)
>Possible worlds, >Truth, >Logical knoledge.
Demonstrative: requires acquaintance: ((s) The winner has a beard.) Aquaintance/Peacocke: Aquaintance is something quite different from identification between worlds.
>Cross world identity, >Identification, >Individuation.

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Peacocke I
Chr. R. Peacocke
Sense and Content Oxford 1983

Peacocke II
Christopher Peacocke
"Truth Definitions and Actual Languges"
In
Truth and Meaning, G. Evans/J. McDowell, Oxford 1976


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