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.
It is bad to want something that not even God could attain, especially when the impossibility becomes obvious. - Ernest Sosa
It is bad to want something that not even God could attain, especially when the impossibility becomes obvious.
- 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 the a p… - 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 the a p…
Descartes's epistemology is a special case of Aristotle's virtue ethics. - Ernest Sosa
Descartes's epistemology is a special case of Aristotle's virtue ethics.
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… - Ernest Sosa
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…
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… - 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 the full aptness of such an attempt…
In competitive archery, risk assessment has minimal bearing on quality of performance, since the archer has so little choice over shot selection. By … - Ernest Sosa
In competitive archery, risk assessment has minimal bearing on quality of performance, since the archer has so little choice over shot selection. By …
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… - Ernest Sosa
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…
I am mainly concerned with unqualified knowledge, by contrast with the varieties of expert knowledge: scientific knowledge of various sorts, legal kn… - Ernest Sosa
I am mainly concerned with unqualified knowledge, by contrast with the varieties of expert knowledge: scientific knowledge of various sorts, legal kn…
Flourishing is properly the main human end, and flourishing is activity of soul that succeeds in accord with virtue. - Ernest Sosa
Flourishing is properly the main human end, and flourishing is activity of soul that succeeds in accord with virtue.
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