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    Acquaintance with contingent facts can yield knowledge of contingent truths

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    • When one is acquainted with one's being in pain, that acquaintance gives knowledge of the contingent truth that one is in pain
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    • 1.Acquaintance, as Russell conceived it, is a direct non-propositional relation that is logically prior to and distinct from propositional knowledge.
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    • 2.Contingent truths are propositional in form and require predication, inference, or conceptual mediation beyond mere acquaintance.
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    • 3.Therefore, acquaintance alone cannot constitute knowledge-that of contingent facts without a conceptual apparatus that transforms raw acquaintance into judgment.
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's private language argument establishes that ostensive self-acquaintance with inner states lacks the normative framework required for genuine truth-apt content.
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    • 2.Without a public criterion for correct application, apparent acquaintance with pain yields only an impression of knowledge, not knowledge of a contingent truth.
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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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    The acquaintance theorist is in a position to offer a different gloss on the traditional distinction between a priori knowledge of necessary truth and a posteriori or empirical knowledge of contingent truth. On the classical acquaintance theory, knowledge of both truths has the same source—acquaintance with facts. The distinction lies with the objects of acquaintance. When I am acquainted with my being in pain, that can give me knowledge of the contingent truth that I’m in pain. When I am acqu
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