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In this piece, Bertrand Russell first up his argument by distinguishing two types of knowledge; knowledge of things and knowledge of truths. He from there proceeds to break up the category of knowledge of things by further distinguishing this type of knowledge in two categories; knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description. We can obtain knowledge of acquaintance when we are directly aware of a thing, without any outside interference. For example, when we are immediately conscious of our own knowledge of a color or texture of a table in front of us, it is named our sense-data. This type of knowledge by acquaintance is logically independent from our knowledge of truths, thus making it possible to be acquainted with something without actually knowing anything, or any truths about it.
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