Experiential acquaintance is an alleged relation between ourselves and our experiences that has sometimes been hypothesised as necessary for knowledge of experiences. This paper begins with a clarification ‘acquaintance’ explanation ‘experience’ focuses attention on famous, but flawed, argument by G. E. Moore. It goes to critically examine several recent arguments concerning experiential show h...

Trust is essential for a secure and flourishing social life, but many economic and philosophical approaches argue that rational people should never extend it, in particular to strangers they will never encounter again. Emerging data on the trust game, a laboratory economic exchange, suggests that people trust strangers excessively (i.e., far more than their tolerance for risk and cynical views ...

I criticize Richard Fumerton’s fallibilist acquaintance theory of noninferential justification.

Large object-oriented systems have, at least, four characteristics that complicate object communication, i.e the system is distributed and contains large numbers, e.g. thousands, of objects, objects need to be reallocated at run-time and objects can be replaced by other objects in order to adapt to the dynamic changes in the system. Traditional object communication is based on sending a message...

Although research on acquaintance, or date rape, dates back to the late 1950's, only recently has the literature in this area focused on prevention. In Fidition, although research has shown that, conservatively, 1 out of 10 women on university campuses has been raped by someone with whom she is familiar, little appears to have been done about the problem in terms of widespread, well-funded prev...

Coincidental re-introductions to established acquaintances suggest that one draws one’s acquaintances from a hypothetical, homogeneous “small world”, not to be confused with an acquaintance chain or an acquaintance volume. The world’s size can be estimated from the coincidences, given an estimate of the acquaintance volume. A typical Freeman–Thompson phonebook test score and a dozen coincidenta...

Risk factors associated with the likelihood of being sexually victimized by a stranger or friend/acquaintance since being on the street was examined among 372 homeless and runaway youth. Young people were interviewed on the streets and in shelters by outreach workers using a systematic sampling strategy. Youth who engaged in more high-risk behaviors were expected to be at greater risk for sexua...