Therefore acquaintance with inferential connections cannot secure inferential knowledge without presupposing a community of practice that acquaintance theory cannot internally justify.

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Community of practice(In this statement, it refers to how a group of people (like linguists or logicians) collectively decide what counts as correct): A group of people who share the same profession, interests, or way of doing things and develop shared understanding through their work together.
Internally Justify(in philosophical arguments about justification): To prove or defend an idea using only resources and logic that exist within that idea itself, without needing to appeal to something outside it.
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
acquaintance theory(Used broadly to cover both Russellian and contemporary variants): Any view in the philosophy of mind or epistemology in which acquaintance — understood as a direct, nonjudgmental form of awareness — plays a central role

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