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

- Ernest Sosa

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

- 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

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

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

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

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

I am mainly concerned with unqualified knowledge, by contrast with the varieties of expert knowledge: scientific knowledge of various sorts, legal kn…

- Ernest Sosa

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

- Ernest Sosa