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    It is not the case that Russell's distinction between knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description shows that some knowledge is non-relational and immediate.

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    • 1.All cognitive states, including acquaintance, involve conceptual mediation and representational content, so true immediacy is illusory.
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    • 2.The sense-data theory Russell relies on is empirically questionable and epistemologically undermined by modern philosophy of perception.
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    • 3.Even Russell's own acquaintance with sense-data requires identifying, categorizing, and applying concepts—making it implicitly relational.
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    • 1.Direct sensory experience of sense-data (e.g., the redness of red) requires no intervening conceptual framework or description.
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    • 2.Knowledge by description depends on chains of inference, while acquaintance is logically prior and independent of those chains.
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    • 3.We can be wrong about descriptions of objects, but not about the immediate phenomenal character of what we directly experience.
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