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13. Knowledge Criteria / B. Internal Justification / 4. Foundationalism / c. Empirical foundations

5378	All knowledge (of things and of truths) rests on the foundations of acquaintance [Russell]
	Full Idea: All our knowledge, both knowledge of things and knowledge of truths, rests upon acquaintance as its foundations.
	From: Bertrand Russell (Problems of Philosophy [1912], Ch. 5)
	A reaction: Russell here allies himself with Hume, and with the empiricist version of foundationalism. 'Acquaintance' plays the role which 'impressions' played for Hume. He is eliminating any possible cognitive content from the Hume idea, implying pure sense-data.