Affected Quote by Ernest Sosa

Lowered reliability obviously yields a lesser competence. But lowered breadth does so as well.

— Ernest Sosa

Suppose we wonder whether we should trust the deliverances of our basic epistemic competences. If those are indeed our basic competences, then in order…

— Ernest Sosa

If we have a better understanding of knowledge than we do of such justification or competence, then we can explain the latter through the…

— Ernest Sosa

In order to qualify as a judgment, an affirmation must aim at getting it right aptly, through competence, and not just through a lucky…

— Ernest Sosa

You attain aptness by judging while in good shape and in a good situation (good light, good distance, etc.), through the exercise of good…

— Ernest Sosa

In my view (animal) knowledge is apt belief, where not only the belief (its existence and content) but also its correctness is creditable to…

— Ernest Sosa

Attempts are found in domains of human performance, such as sports, games, artistic domains, professional domains like medicine and the law, and so on.…

— Ernest Sosa

Epistemic competence might be posterior to knowledge conceptually, however, while still prior metaphysically.

— Ernest Sosa

One does not avoid incompetence if one makes an attempt whose likelihood of success is too low. This seems little more than analytic: when…

— Ernest Sosa

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

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

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