[lbo-talk] Irrelevance of Intelligence RE: Check your privilege?

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Tue Aug 20 07:13:20 PDT 2013


Cheney is probably by most measurements a hell of a lot "smarter" than anyone on this list.

And what about teller?

Conclusions, ideas, analyses, etc can be stupid or intelligent. Statements about some person's intelligence are stupid statements, and such a statement discredits any argument grounded in it.

And incidentally, no one has ever given an acceptable definition of the thing (intelligence) referred to here. There are endless senses of the _word_ "intelligence," but nothing very intelligent about what intelligence is.

Carrol



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