Linguistics makes philosophy interesting. I am in the midst of writing my final paper. I am focusing on Intelligence and AI. Trying to figure out what intelligence is hard enough without all definitions that I find needing to have other words in them defined as well. Now, I am a word nerd so I don't mind it all, I am having a lot of fun in fact, though my paper might be rambling a bit; noting that people used to talking to me will be surprised at, though I am sorry about that Randy, enjoy the read. Anyway, I cam e to the OED's definition of Intelligence and it said "The faculty of understanding; intellect." Now the definition on Wikipedia, yeah I know wiki, I don't care I like it, said that intelligence is sometimes viewed as distinct from knowledge and wisdom. I liked the quote, look it up if you want to see it, I also more or less agree with it. And that leads me to my question, is there a difference between Knowledge, Intelligence, Wisdom, and Understanding? Which are synonymous and which are simply synonyms? i.e. numerically identical and merely quantitatively identical.
posted by Reacher Eriee at 2:05 PM
2 Comments:
i think that intelgence is not what we know but how we apply it i mean i might know that someone is going to get hit by a car and you don't tell do something about it i think that you are not intelgent i think intelgence is what we know but how we use it
How about this:
knowledge = factual awareness;
understanding = synthesis of factual awareness to make sensitive and informed decisions;
intelligence = ability to gain knowledge and affinity for understanding;
and wisdom = analysis of situations and prior experiences, combined with knowledge and understanding, to arrive at insightful and perhaps hidden conclusions.
What do you guys think?
(Oh crap. Do I have to define insight as well?)
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