The making-probable relation, if grasped via acquaintance alone, reduces epistemic work to phenomenal accessibility, collapsing the structural distinction Tucker's dilemma was meant to preserve.
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Structural distinction(as used in logic and metaphysics)
A meaningful difference in how two things are organized or related to each other, rather than just being different in appearance.
Tucker's dilemma(as used in contemporary epistemology)
A philosophical puzzle (named after philosopher Chris Tucker) about how we can have knowledge of abstract things—it explores whether two different philosophical positions lead to problems.
acquaintance(Russell's epistemology of singular reference)
Russell's form of demonstrative identification, in which a subject is directly presented with an object (typically sense data) rather than an extra-mental individual