Success is better than failure; an attempt is a better attempt, it is better as an attempt, if competent than if incompetent;… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
Epistemic competence might be posterior to knowledge conceptually, however, while still prior metaphysically. — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
In order to qualify as a judgment, an affirmation must aim at getting it right aptly, through competence, and not just through… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
If we have a better understanding of knowledge than we do of such justification or competence, then we can explain the latter… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
In my view (animal) knowledge is apt belief, where not only the belief (its existence and content) but also its correctness is… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
When you dream, your perceptual (and other) competence is affected. You are then unable to get it right competently with the beliefs… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
We can pursue the Cartesian project without restricting ourselves to theology and a priori faculties. A better, broader perspective is properly sought… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
Given its more substantial aim, a judgment is apt only if its constitutive alethic affirmation is not only apt but aptly apt.… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
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
One does not avoid incompetence if one makes an attempt whose likelihood of success is too low. This seems little more than… — 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
Lowered reliability obviously yields a lesser competence. But lowered breadth does so as well. — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
You attain aptness by judging while in good shape and in a good situation (good light, good distance, etc.), through the exercise… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
When I accept someone's testimony, I am thus only a small part of the full seat of epistemic competence, which might include… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
Suppose we wonder whether we should trust the deliverances of our basic epistemic competences. If those are indeed our basic competences, then… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
Animal knowledge is metaphysically constituted by apt belief, by belief whose correctness manifests the believer's epistemic competence, a relevant disposition to get… — 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 Image
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 Image
Ultimately, my more significant agreement is with a virtue tradition that features Aristotle and Descartes. — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
It is bad to want something that not even God could attain, especially when the impossibility becomes obvious. — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Descartes's epistemology is a special case of Aristotle's virtue ethics. — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
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 Image
Judgment is affirmation with the intention to thereby affirm competently enough, and indeed aptly. That distinguishes judgments from mere guesses. — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
