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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._____________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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Chr. 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._____________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 |