• between two different kinds of knowledge: knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description. Whereas knowledge by description is something like ordinary...
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  • propositional knowledge about facts, practical knowledge in the form of skills, and knowledge by acquaintance as a familiarity through experience. Epistemologists...
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    and implicit knowledge. Declarative knowledge is often contrasted with practical knowledge and knowledge by acquaintance. Practical knowledge consists of...
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  • Conee's acquaintance hypothesis describes a third category of knowledge "by acquaintance of an experience". Tye also defends a version of the acquaintance hypothesis...
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  • practical knowledge and knowledge by acquaintance. Practical knowledge concerns the ability to do something, like knowing how to swim. Knowledge by acquaintance...
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    and knowledge by acquaintance as a familiarity with the known object based on previous direct experience, like knowing someone personally. Knowledge is...
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  • procedural knowledge (the knowledge of how, and especially how best, to perform some task), and "knowing of", or knowledge by acquaintance (the knowledge of something's...
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  • Russell's contrast of Knowledge by Acquaintance and by Description. In the philosophy of mind, the phrase often refers to knowledge that can only be acquired...
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    to knowledge by acquaintance, in that it is based on direct experience of stimuli;[verification needed] however, unlike knowledge by acquaintance, as...
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  • Perhaps also significant is that Bertrand Russell argued that knowledge by acquaintance played an important part in epistemology. Fricker, Elizabeth;...
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  • Decision making Descriptive knowledge Dispersed knowledge Fuzzy concept Hidden curriculum Intuition Knowledge by acquaintance Knowledge tagging Logical consequence...
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  • Imperative mood Inquiry Intuition Knowledge by acquaintance Knowledge tags Mentorship Methods of obtaining knowledge Normative science Procedural memory...
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    bicycle, and knowledge by acquaintance, for example, knowing a celebrity personally. One area in epistemology is the analysis of knowledge. It assumes...
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  • The Problems of Philosophy (category Books by Bertrand Russell)
    the reader through his famous 1910 distinction between knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description and introduces important theories of Plato...
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    Other Essays. London: George Allen & Unwin 1956. Logic and Knowledge: Essays 1901–1950, edited by Robert C. Marsh. London: George Allen & Unwin 1957. Why...
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  • Grok (category Sources of knowledge)
    Knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description – a distinction in philosophy between familiarity with a person, place, or thing and knowledge...
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  • two ways in which we can be familiar with objects: "knowledge by acquaintance" and "knowledge by description". For a time, Russell thought that we could...
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    Judgment" was first read to the club on 21 October 1898. "Knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description" was presented to a meeting in 1911, and in...
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  • clear understanding of the topic at hand.[clarification needed] Knowledge by acquaintance Scientific demonstration Physics Instructional Resource Association...
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  • Philosophy, Revised Second Edition 2008, p. 318 Saul Kripke, Arif Ahmed, p. 27 Russell, Bertrand (1917), Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description...
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    Cogito, ergo sum Cryonics Free will Ideasthesia Introspection Knowledge by acquaintance List of unsolved problems in biology Mind–body problem Phenomenalism...
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  • Testimony Types of knowledge Descriptive knowledge – "Knowledge that" Procedural knowledge – "Knowledge how" Knowledge by acquaintance A priori and a posteriori...
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  • limits of knowledge by acquaintance: one is unable to know with certainty the existence of determinate things in one's experience merely by the virtue...
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    "Connaturality". Connatural knowledge is a kind of knowledge by acquaintance. We know the natural law through our direct acquaintance with it in our human experience...
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  • paradox Knowledge Knowledge acquisition Knowledge and Its Limits Knowledge by acquaintance Knowledge by description Knowledge of Angels Knowledge relativity...
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    off by the Abbey in 1823 but recovered and restored a century later. She was bounteous and lyberal to every Person of her Knowledge or acquaintance. Avarice...
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  • On Denoting (category Essays by Bertrand Russell)
    essentially two modes of knowing: knowledge by description and knowledge by (direct) acquaintance. Knowledge by acquaintance is limited to the sense data of...
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    this time were the essays 'A Logician's Fairytale', 'Is There Knowledge by Acquaintance?', 'Law and Fact' and 'The Ascription of Responsibility and Rights'...
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    esotericism as encompassing all of Western culture's "rejected knowledge" that is accepted neither by the scientific establishment nor orthodox religious authorities...
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  • Borges and I (category Short stories by Jorge Luis Borges)
    description (as opposed to the more expected knowledge by acquaintance). This is emphasized by the mention of receiving Borges's mail and reading about...
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