| 单词 | knowledge by acquaintance |
| 释义 | > as lemmasknowledge by acquaintance a. knowledge by acquaintance: knowledge of a person, thing, or perception gained by direct experience (opposed to knowledge-about at Phrases 6b or knowledge by description at Phrases 6c). Also knowledge of acquaintance. ΚΠ a1795 B. Beddome Serm. (1835) xviii. 122 The knowledge that the person had before was like that of the queen of Sheba in her own country—a knowledge of report and hearsay; but now it is a knowledge of acquaintance. 1884 A. Maclaren Year's Ministry (Second ser.) v. 66 You have known about Jesus Christ all your lives, and yet, in a real, deep sense you do not know Him at this moment. For the knowledge of which my text speaks is the knowledge by acquaintance with a person rather than the knowledge that a man may have of a book. 1911 B. Russell in Proc. Aristot. Soc. 11 127 We began by distinguishing two sorts of knowledge of objects, namely, knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description. Of these it is only the former that brings the object itself before the mind. 1954 J. A. C. Brown Social Psychol. of Industry iii. 95 Two kinds of knowledge: ‘knowledge-about’, based on reflexion and abstract thinking, and ‘knowledge-of-acquaintance’, based on direct experience. 2000 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 15 June 64/1 Bertrand Russell had this right years ago in his distinction between knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description. < as lemmas |
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