An account of such standards then has to be developed in terms of the sort of abilities and competences that successful critics exhibit in their criticism.
Generally, writing programs are no more harmful than patronage has been through the centuries, and their chief deficiency — producing a uniform sort of competence — is too well known to require further warning from me.
Epistemic competences the sort of competence that is relevant to epistemology are dispositions of a specific variety: dispositions to arrive at the truth.
Their distrust of others led them to turn to Gurinder Singh Dhillon — their spiritual master and surrogate father — without considering what sort of competence, experience or accountability was needed before they made loans and become partners with the Dhillon family.
We are hopefully avoiding the very worst of matters, the sort of global crisis of confidence in American intelligence and competence that is the only distraction that might utterly derail matters in Asia and the Pacific.
Yet Stephen's is the sort of idealism that turns out to be thin-skinned and highly strung, in spite of the apparent unflappable competence that so impresses both his own boss, Paul Zara Philip Seymour Hoffmann), and his enemy's PR chief, Tom Duffy Paul Giamattii).
They worked in a lithographic style of considerable artistic competence, without the force of Nast or the effortless flow of Daumier, but with plenty of clever analogies and with an understanding of the sort of likeness required in caricature.
According to accounts of this kind, responsible agents need to have control over their actions, where this involves performing "those actions intentionally, while possessing the relevant sorts of normative competence: the general ability to grasp moral requirements and to govern one's conduct by light of them" (Wallace, 1994: 86).
You know, whether that's, they did not have what we might call idiosyncrasy credits – they didn't have the goodwill built up about sort of their competence and their intentions.
The band never rose above a sort of grim competence.
Call it the issue of competence.
