ABSTRACT
In view of certain epistemological theories, this chapter provides something as the relation of knowing to being aware of an issue which can very easily become confused. To discuss the logic of awareness in a comprehensive manner lies outside the scope of the present enquiry; but some investigation at least is necessary in order to complete our account of knowing. People may note first of all that direct awareness has been a very popular runner in the sense datum stakes, and has received perhaps even more backing than that erstwhile popular runner direct acquaintance although both runners probably come from the same stable. The curious argument originated by the Greek sceptics and developed by Lord Russell, that just because people are directly aware of sense data and not physical objects as such, it is only the former that people can claim to know with certainty.
