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Those who have the measure of their epistemically worth... have attitudes that promote making the best of whatever cognitive abilities they have and of their potential for improvements in two related senses.

They are able to accept their limitations without being resigned to them.

Having a well-calibrated sense of one’s intellectual abilities and limitations is necessary for being a good inquirer or epistemically agent.

many individuals fail in their aims because they do not make good evaluations of their intellectual strengths and weaknesses. Whilst sometimes misjudgments are the result of honest mistakes and other non-culpable shortcomings, oftentimes misjudgments flow from systematically biased thinking.