ABSTRACT
A number of philosophers have defended the claim that knowledge is a kind of achievement. The central idea is that, in cases of knowledge, the knower’s getting things right can be attributed to her own doing. More exactly, her getting things right can be attributed to her own competent doing. Another way to put the general idea, then, is that knowledge is a kind of success from competence, or success from ability. Suppose that we think that intellectual virtues are a kind of intellectual excellence, ability or competence. Then another way to put the general idea is that knowledge is a kind of success from virtue. 1
