Acquaintance, knowledge, and value

Taking perceptual experience to consist in a relation of acquaintance with the sensible qualities, I argue that state being acquainted quality is intrinsically form knowledge, and not merely means more familiar kinds such as propositional or dispositional knowledge. We should accept epistemic claim for its explanatory power theoretical usefulness. That knowledge best explains intuitive appeal ‘Edenic’ counterfactuals involving unmediated contact reality (cf. Chalmers, in: Gendler, Hawthorne (eds) Perceptual experience, Oxford University Press, 2006). It elusiveness gained through new acquaintances. coheres knowledge-like functional role special context evaluative beliefs reasoning, where objects serve evidence inferential basis. And, finally, taking be theoretically fruitful: it helps vindicate claims about relationship between concern others we already find outright accept. After developing novel case claim, respond two objections against it: namely, (1) there are no pre-propositional, pre-conceptual cases remain epistemically relevant (Sellars Empiricism philosophy mind, Routledge, 1968, McDowell, Lindgard (ed) John McDowell: Experience, norm, nature, Blackwell, 2008); (2) category appears gerrymandered once add ‘object’ epistemological mix (Farkas, Knowles, Raleigh (eds), Acquaintance: essays, 2019).