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Judgment is affirmation with the intention to thereby affirm competently enough, and indeed aptly. That distinguishes judgments from mere guesses.

Ernest Sosa

It is also certain that when we assent to some piece of reasoning when our perception of it is lacking, then either we go wrong, or, if we do stumble on the truth, it is by accident, so that we cannot be sure that we are not in error.

Ernest Sosa

Ernest Sosa

Ernest Sosa

Born: June 17, 1940 (age 84)

Bio: Ernest Sosa is an American philosopher primarily interested in epistemology. He is Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University since 2007, but spent most of his career at Brown University.

Known for:

A Virtue Epistemology (2007)
Epistemic Justification (2003)
Knowledge in perspective (1991)
Knowing Full Well (2010)
Judgment and Agency (2015)

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