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