Acquaintance knowledge
What Acquaintance knowledge means in Philosophy A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Knowledge of a thing gained by direct experiential contact, such as knowing what a colour looks like from seeing it.
Knowing a thing or person by direct familiarity, rather than knowing facts about them.
Topics that use Acquaintance knowledge
- Dualist theories (AQA A-Level)
- What is knowledge? (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Ability knowledge
- Propositional knowledge
- Argument evaluation
- Complete physical information
- Conceivability and possibility
- Consciousness and physicalism
- Counterexamples
- Critique of the zombie argument
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