Single Idea 16374

[catalogued under 11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 1. Perceptual Realism / b. Direct realism]

Full Idea

It is not too difficult to imagine a continuum of cases between straightforward instances of knowledge by acquaintance and straightforward instances of knowledge by description, with more or less tenuous informational links to the referent.

Gist of Idea

There is a continuum from acquaintance to description in knowledge, depending on the link

Source

François Recanati (Mental Files [2012], 12.2)

Book Reference

Recanati,François: 'Mental Files' [OUP 2012], p.150