Accord Quote by Ernest Sosa

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

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

Ultimately, my more significant agreement is with a virtue tradition that features Aristotle and Descartes.

— Ernest Sosa

It is bad to want something that not even God could attain, especially when the impossibility becomes obvious.

— Ernest Sosa

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

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

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

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

Descartes's epistemology is a special case of Aristotle's virtue ethics.

— Ernest Sosa

There isn't a formal definition of success.

— Ernest Sosa

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

Judgment is affirmation with the intention to thereby affirm competently enough, and indeed aptly. That distinguishes judgments from mere guesses.

— Ernest Sosa