I feel that people have asked me my age I don't actually think that thirty is particularly young … - Dana Goldstein

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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.

Dana Goldstein

I feel that people have asked me my age I don't actually think that thirty is particularly young for a first book to come out. And I sometimes wonder if a male author would have been asked this question so frequently.

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