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

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



Ernest Sosa Quotes: "A successful account enables us to understand human knowledge in general."

A successful account enables us to understand human knowledge in general.




Ernest Sosa Quotes: "Epistemic competence might be posterior to knowledge conceptually, however, while still prior metaphysically."

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



Ernest Sosa Quotes: "There's not much to be done about the impossibility. One must instead get rid of the desire."

There's not much to be done about the impossibility. One must instead get rid of the desire.




Ernest Sosa Quotes: "When you dream, your perceptual (and other) competence is affected. You are then unable to get it right competently with the beliefs in your dream."

When you dream, your perceptual (and other) competence is affected. You are then unable to get it right competently with the beliefs in your dream.



Ernest Sosa Quotes: "The correctness of much testimonially based belief is no more than minimally creditable to the believer."

The correctness of much testimonially based belief is no more than minimally creditable to the believer.



Ernest Sosa Quotes: "In order to qualify as a judgment, an affirmation must aim at getting it right aptly, through competence, and not just through a lucky guess."

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




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

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



Ernest Sosa Quotes: "We must distinguish judging from guessing."

We must distinguish judging from guessing.



Ernest Sosa Quotes: "If we have a better understanding of knowledge than we do of such justification or competence, then we can explain the latter through the former."

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



Ernest Sosa Quotes: "Lowered reliability obviously yields a lesser competence. But lowered breadth does so as well."

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



Ernest Sosa Quotes: "Any defense of common sense must allow that it is revisable."

Any defense of common sense must allow that it is revisable.




Ernest Sosa Quotes: "Ultimately, my more significant agreement is with a virtue tradition that features Aristotle and Descartes."

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



Ernest Sosa Quotes: "You attain aptness by judging while in good shape and in a good situation (good light, good distance, etc.), through the exercise of good barn-sorting epistemic competence."

You attain aptness by judging while in good shape and in a good situation (good light, good distance, etc.), through the exercise of good barn-sorting epistemic competence.



Ernest Sosa Quotes: "In my view (animal) knowledge is apt belief, where not only the belief (its existence and content) but also its correctness is creditable to the subject's competence."

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



Ernest Sosa Quotes: "There isn't a formal definition of success."

There isn't a formal definition of success.



Ernest Sosa Quotes: "I am mainly concerned with unqualified knowledge, by contrast with the varieties of expert knowledge: scientific knowledge of various sorts, legal knowledge, medically expert knowledge, and so on."

I am mainly concerned with unqualified knowledge, by contrast with the varieties of expert knowledge: scientific knowledge of various sorts, legal knowledge, medically expert knowledge, and so on.



Ernest Sosa Quotes: "Knowledge in my view is a form of action. It involves endeavors to get it right, and more broadly it concerns aimings, which can be functional rather than intentional."

Knowledge in my view is a form of action. It involves endeavors to get it right, and more broadly it concerns aimings, which can be functional rather than intentional.



Ernest Sosa Quotes: "Philosophers need not much use the word 'intuition' or the concept of intuition, except when they happen to be working on the epistemology of the a priori."

Philosophers need not much use the word 'intuition' or the concept of intuition, except when they happen to be working on the epistemology of the a priori.



Ernest Sosa Quotes: "Descartes's epistemology is a special case of Aristotle's virtue ethics."

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



Ernest Sosa Quotes: "Flourishing is properly the main human end, and flourishing is activity of soul that succeeds in accord with virtue."

Flourishing is properly the main human end, and flourishing is activity of soul that succeeds in accord with virtue.