Epistemic competence might be posterior to knowledge conceptually, however, while still prior metaphysically.

There's not much to be done about the impossibility. One must instead get rid of the desire.

Ultimately, my more significant agreement is with a virtue tradition that features Aristotle and Descartes.

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

Any defense of common sense must allow that it is revisable.

I am mainly concerned with unqualified knowledge, by contrast with the varieties of expert knowledge: scientific knowledge of various sorts, legal knowledge, medically expert knowledge, and so on.

Normal adults can doodle, amble, and drift with no need to assess risk, since there is normally no risk at all. Jazz improvisation seems less subject to standards of risk than surgery, and less than much formal athletic performance, as in a tennis match.