  Non-overestimation accounts deny that modesty or humility requires underestimation and instead claim that all that is required is not overestimating one’s own good qualities. Flanagan (1990) defends this kind of account for modesty and Richards (1988) for humility. This kind of account allows that the modest or humble person can have accurate self-knowledge. It also makes the virtue compatible with ignorance since one way of not overestimating one’s good qualities is to underestimate them, though Flanagan claims that “ideally” this will not happen (1990, 427).