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Bertrand Russell makes a distinction between two different kinds of knowledge: knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description. Whereas knowledge...

first stanza of the James Watson ballad: Should Old Acquaintance be forgot, and never thought upon; The flames of Love extinguished, and fully past and gone:...

contemporary writer recalls his early days in New York City, when he makes the acquaintance of his remarkable neighbor, Holly Golightly, who is one of Capote's...

arrive at the Emerald City and make the acquaintance of His Majesty the Scarecrow. Jinjur and her crew invade the Emerald City, terrorize the citizens...

few days, several other bizarre deaths occur. William and Adso make the acquaintance of Salvatore, a hunchback who speaks gibberish in various languages...

island immediately catches her attention. On the train, Miranda makes the acquaintance of five other guests — Donald Walker, an American journalist; Lawrence...

underworld lingo and a couple of odes to the nobility of cops. We have also been privileged to make the acquaintance of several colorful underworld types…...

cul-de-sac with their two children, who are away at summer camp. They make the acquaintance of their new neighbors, Tim and Natalie Jones. Tim is a travel writer...

allowed her an education at Oxford University, to travel the world, and to make the acquaintance of people who would become influential policy-makers later...

entertainment center, the titular Man Suang. Along his journey, he is accompanied by Wan, his best friend, and makes the acquaintance of Chatra, a nobleman...

Taunt. At the show, Wayne and Garth make the acquaintance of a bodyguard to music producer Frankie Sharp, head of Sharp Records. While filming the revamped...

himself to him. The purpose of Myshkin's trip is to make the acquaintance of his distant relative Lizaveta Prokofyevna, and to make inquiries about a...

church near the port, and there, they make the acquaintance of Theodore and Stauracius, a priest and monk respectively. Theodore, fearful for the dwindling...

he calls "the Silver". But he was not only the first who enabled the learned world to make the acquaintance of the Gothic translation of the Gospels in...

Nami makes the acquaintance of the Trump Siblings' captain, Bear King. He takes a liking to her and decides to make her his bride. Eventually the Thief...

intruded upon by the twentieth century. And this is Pedro, nine years old, a lonely, rootless little boy, who will soon make the acquaintance of a traveler...

would also make the acquaintance of the Swedish feminist activist and writer Rosalie Olivecrona. In 1864 Sir William and Lady Wilde were at the centre of...

suspect is also a virgin. The trio make the acquaintance of a slightly younger teenager, Rhoda, a shy girl who confides in the others that her mother died...

cottage overlooking the sea on the west coast of Scotland. There they live as beachcombers, and make the acquaintance of Dr. Mary from the nearby village,...

and moral faculties in play, make the acquaintance of the great and the powerful, exercise strict self-control, and play the chameleon." Casanova had matured...