Ernest Sosa Quotes About Belief

Quotes about: Belief

• When we speak of ordinary unqualified knowledge, my thought is that we are implicitly relativizing to the standards imposed by our evolution-derived humanity. These are standards that determine when we consider it appropriate to store beliefs just as a human being, rather than in one's capacity as an expert of one or another sort. Such stored beliefs are to be available for later use in one's own thought or in testimony to others.

  Ernest Sosa

  Humanity, Ordinary, Experts

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• We need some standard that will determine how likely a belief is to be true given just that it is stored in one of us, including strangers that one can ask for directions, and with whom one might collaborate.

  Ernest Sosa

  Needs, Might, Belief

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• Through our perceptual systems, we represent our surroundings, aiming to do so accurately, where the aiming is functional or teleological, rather than intentional. And the same goes for our functional beliefs. Through our judgments, however, we do intentionally, even consciously, attempt to get it right.

  Ernest Sosa

  Belief, Judgment, Surroundings

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• 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

  Dream, Belief, Competence

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• Animal knowledge is metaphysically constituted by apt belief, by belief whose correctness manifests the believer's epistemic competence, a relevant disposition to get it right on the matter at hand when one tries to do so.

  Ernest Sosa

  Animal, Hands, Trying

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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.

  Ernest Sosa

  Animal, Views, Belief

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

  Ernest Sosa

  Belief, Believer, Correctness

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