Assertion: acquaintance | /r/HasProperty | relation
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text: Russell thus characterizes acquaintance as a relation of direct awareness, a relation in which, as Russell and some others have put it, something is “presented” or simply “given” to the subject (see e.g., Lewis 1929 and 1946; Moser 1989: 80ff.; Fales 1996.)
text: 2. acquaintance - a relationship less intimate than friendship
text: It might be more fruitful to direct one’s attention to it by describing it in some (hopefully) revealing way, as we did in section 2: acquaintance is that relation the subject had to pain before being engrossed in the conversation, the relation that ceased during the conversation, and that began again shortly thereafter.
text: A relation of acquaintance seems to provide just what is needed here: if acquaintance is a relation that one can stand in to one’s experience or to some feature of the experience, that would account for the possibility of having an experience of something, like a pain or some other sensation, temporarily failing to notice it, and then noticing it again.
text: Acquaintance is a relationship less intimate than friendship.