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Bertrand Russell distinguishes between two types of knowledge - knowledge by acquaintance and knowledge by description. Knowledge by acquaintance involves direct awareness of things through senses, memory, introspection, etc. Knowledge by description involves knowing a thing indirectly through a description, such as knowing a physical object through the sense data it causes. Russell uses the examples of knowing oneself directly versus knowing other people or objects like Bismarck indirectly through descript
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- Komalika Neyol
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- EN