O wiedzy i znajomości

• Authors: Rafał Palczewski

Title variants

EN

On knowledge and acquaintance

Abstracts

EN

The distinction introduced by Bertrand Russell between knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description is the starting point for analyses related to the concept of acquaintance. I propose to assume that the following three concepts used by Russell are equivalent: knowledge of things, knowledge by acquaintance, and acquaintance. Then I present linguistic analyses concerning the construction of ‘know‑NP’ and ‘znać‑NP’, which lead to (i) division into a direct and indirect acquaintance and (ii) separation of knowledge from acquaintance, recognizing them as two different cognitive relations. Then, through the prism of knowledge, I describe the concept of acquaintance, pointing to the common properties of these concepts (aptness, non‑voluntariness, dispositiona-lity, contextual dependency), and postulate similar normative functions. This paper can be treated as an introduction to the concept of acquaintance and an elucidation of its role in epistemology.

Keywords

PL

norma działania; B. Russell; trafność; wiedza; znajomość

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Przegląd Filozoficzny. Nowa Seria
• Year: 2022
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 255-277

Dates

published

2022

Contributors

author

Rafał Palczewski

• Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu, Instytut Filozofii

• https://orcid.org/0000000173688094

Identifiers

DOI

10.24425/pfns.2022.143863

Biblioteka Nauki

55789390