 On Sosa’s view, drawing that distinction between gnoseology and intellectual ethics allows us to better appreciate the sense in which practical considerations bear importance in epistemology. While they do not matter for gnoseological assessment as such (with the exception noted), they are often important to intellectual ethics, viz., to the questions that one actually bothers to answer, even to those that one bothers to answer in constitutive attempts to answer aptly, and of course practical values matter also to what inquiries one takes up, and how one budgets intellectual resources. However, the distinction helps us to avoid conflating different kinds of intellectual norms, while at the same time allowing these different kinds of norms (of gnoseology and intellectual ethics) to coexist within a wider picture of intellectual life.