Next Steps: Acquaintance and Cognitive Penetration

In what follows, we will first consider, briefly and superficially, alternatives to the
idea that acquaintance is what links your thoughts to their objects.
We will then turn to the main topic of week 2: cognitive penetration and the
question of there is a distinction between cognition and perception which would enable
us to explain the possibility of thought about an object by appeal to acquaintance with it.