Ernest Sosa Quotes

• When the risk of failure is too high, the right choice is to forbear.

  Ernest Sosa

  Choices, Risk, Right Choices

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

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  Soul, Succeed, Virtue

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• If a shot aimed at aptness succeeds aptly, it is then fully apt, since it is not only apt but also aptly apt. But the full aptness of such an attempt is entirely compatible with its being a horrible murder, if the "hunter" is an assassin and the prey his victim. That hunter's shot may still be outstandingly, fully apt, if it manifests the agent's competence in both archery dexterity and shot selection.

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  Archery, Assassins, May

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• The success of an archery shot may bring food to the hunter's starving family, or may constitute a horrible murder. But these outcomes are irrelevant to the assessment of that shot as a hunter-archery shot, as an attempt to hit prey without running excessive risk of failure.

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  Running, Assessment, Archery

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

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  Want Something, Want, Obvious

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

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  Special, Ethics, Virtue

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• There isn't a formal definition of success.

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  Definitions, Formal, Definition Of Success

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• En el tiro con arco de competición, la evaluación del riesgo influye mínimamente en la calidad de la ejecución, ya que el arquero tiene muy pocas opciones a la hora de elegir el tiro. En cambio, en una cacería, la calidad de los disparos varía en función de lo bien seleccionados que estén.

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  Archer, Assessment, Choices

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• 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.

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  Intuition, Needs, Use

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• 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.

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  Experts, Unqualified, Contrast

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• Compare the credit for a football touchdown, which might be shared by the receiver not only with the quarterback, but also with the linesmen who make crucial protective plays, etc. The success of the touchdown play depends on the receiver, it is true; but in a particular case it might depend far more on the work of others.

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  Football, Play, Credit

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• Attempts are found in domains of human performance, such as sports, games, artistic domains, professional domains like medicine and the law, and so on. These feature distinctive aims, and corresponding competences. Archery, with its distinctive arrows and targets, divides into subdomains. Thus, competitive archery differs importantly from archery hunting.

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  Sports, Hunting, Archery

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

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  Successful, Accounts, Humans

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

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  Desire, Done, Impossibility

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• Suppose we wonder whether we should trust the deliverances of our basic epistemic competences. If those are indeed our basic competences, then in order properly to satisfy our curiosity we will inevitably rely on one or more of them. So, either we squelch our curiosity or we will have to fall into the circularity or regress to which the skeptic objects.

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  Fall, Order, Curiosity

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• Success is better than failure; an attempt is a better attempt, it is better as an attempt, if competent than if incompetent; and it is better to succeed through competence - aptly - than through sheer luck.

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  Luck, Succeed, Competence

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• 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.

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  Distance, Exercise, Light

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

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  Might, Competence, Stills

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• Normal adults can doodle, amble, and drift with no need to assess risk, since there is normally no risk at all. Jazz improvisation seems less subject to standards of risk than surgery, and less than much formal athletic performance, as in a tennis match.

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  Tennis, Risk, Athletic

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• 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.

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  Animal, Views, Belief

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• A hunter archer can also be out to shock by taking crazy shots. What makes his shots "crazy" is set by excessive risk, judged by hunting-archery standards, which would tend to draw agreement from knowledgeable observers.

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  Crazy, Archer, Hunting

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• There is no need for the scientist to go into whether an observation was made, nor into the who, what, when, or where. The data on which scientific theorizing is based are rather the propositional contents of the instrument readings recorded, or the facts detected thereby.

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  Reading, Data, Needs

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• Philosophers do need to have intuitions of various specific sorts: ethical, metaphysical, etc., depending on their targeted subject matter. And they must make intuition reports, as they record the contents of their intuitions. But they need not go into whether an intuition has been enjoyed.

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  Intuition, Needs, Records

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• The risk pertinent to a particular attempt (and to its evaluation as an attempt of its sort) is the risk that the agent will fail to attain the end constitutive of that attempt. This risk of failure is coordinate with how likely or unlikely it may be that the agent will then succeed.

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  Risk, Evaluation, Succeed

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• In arriving at the relevant theory about the specifics of our faculty of vision we will presumably use our eyes to gather relevant data. Based on such data we come to know about the optic nerve, the structure of our eyes, the rods and cones, etc., so as to explain how it is that vision gives us reliable access to the shapes and colors of objects around us. In reliably arriving at that theory we thus exercise the very faculty whose reliability is explained by the theory. There is no vice in this sort of circularity.

  Ernest Sosa

  Eye, Exercise, Color

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