“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.” HumansLawFoundGamesSportsPerformancesAimMedicineArtisticFeaturesTargetDividesHuntingDomainCompetenceArrowsDistinctiveCorrespondingArchery Author: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 guess.” OrderLuckyJudgmentAimAffirmationCompetence Author: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 must attain aptly not only the truth of his affirmation but also its aptness. And that in turn requires not only the proper operation of one's perception, memory, inference, etc., but also that one deploy such competences through competent epistemic risk assessment.” IfsTurnsGivenMemoriesRiskSubjectsJudgmentPerceptionAimOperationsEtcAffirmationCompetenceCompetentAssessmentInference Author:Ernest Sosa
“If the agent aims to make the attempt if and only if it would be apt, then a distinctive element of risk assessment becomes relevant: How probably would the agent succeed in attempting that fuller end?” IfsEndsWould BeRiskSucceedElementsAimAgentsRelevantAttemptingAssessmentDistinctiveIfs And Author:Ernest Sosa
