Re: What is wisdom

From: Christian Szegedy (szegedy@or.uni-bonn.de)
Date: Tue Jul 16 2002 - 08:45:40 MDT


Gordon Worley wrote:

> Q: So, does intelligence equal wisdom?
>
> A: It has become cliché on SL4 to say that intelligence does not
> equal wisdom. Many of us have been well aware of this for quite some
> time. Please, avoid pointing this out unless the alternative is being
> drawn and quartered (and maybe not even then). This is also a rather
> silly thing to say, since for all you know greater intelligence *does*
> equal greater wisdom. With humans we get the opinion that the two are
> uncorrelated, but the sample is too small to make non trivial factual
> statements about greater intelligences (aside from the errors of
> extrapolation).

Wisdom is to omit discussing the correlation of two undefined concepts. :?



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