If a shot aimed at aptness succeeds aptly, it is then fully apt, since it is not only apt but also aptly… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
The success of an archery shot may bring food to the hunter's starving family, or may constitute a horrible murder. But these… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
Attempts are found in domains of human performance, such as sports, games, artistic domains, professional domains like medicine and the law, and… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
In my view there is a level of human knowledge that involves just getting it right aptly. This "animal" epistemic level is… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
In competitive archery, risk assessment has minimal bearing on quality of performance, since the archer has so little choice over shot selection.… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
A hunter archer can also be out to shock by taking crazy shots. What makes his shots "crazy" is set by excessive… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
Philosophers need not much use the word 'intuition' or the concept of intuition, except when they happen to be working on the epistemology of… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share
When you dream, your perceptual (and other) competence is affected. You are then unable to get it right competently with the beliefs in your… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share
Ultimately, my more significant agreement is with a virtue tradition that features Aristotle and Descartes. — Ernest Sosa Copy Share
It is bad to want something that not even God could attain, especially when the impossibility becomes obvious. — Ernest Sosa Copy Share
I am mainly concerned with unqualified knowledge, by contrast with the varieties of expert knowledge: scientific knowledge of various sorts, legal knowledge, medically expert… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share
If a shot aimed at aptness succeeds aptly, it is then fully apt, since it is not only apt but also aptly apt. But… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share
It is also certain that when we assent to some piece of reasoning when our perception of it is lacking, then either we go… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share
We need some standard that will determine how likely a belief is to be true given just that it is stored in one of… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share
Success is better than failure; an attempt is a better attempt, it is better as an attempt, if competent than if incompetent; and it… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share
Judgment is affirmation with the intention to thereby affirm competently enough, and indeed aptly. That distinguishes judgments from mere guesses. — Ernest Sosa Copy Share
Given its more substantial aim, a judgment is apt only if its constitutive alethic affirmation is not only apt but aptly apt. The subject… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share
We can pursue the Cartesian project without restricting ourselves to theology and a priori faculties. A better, broader perspective is properly sought if we… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share
