What about Elle Woods in the movie 'legally blonde'? Do you think she portrayed a very intelligent student lawyer or one who only used her common sense? what about poets and rhetoric writers? Or people who are learned but have totally forgotten the technicallities and yet are able to apply through practicality. Do you think common sense is the term to describe what they have in their brains?
2007-01-29 12:36:22 · 6 answers · asked by oscar c 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
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do world leaders derive and justify their agenda, rules and other relevant synopses on the bases of someone's teachings, theories, and ideas? it came to remind me how absurd it would be then during presidential debates that the pres e.g. would pause every now and then and qoute maxims from Plato's the Republic or Machiavellian's cunning and deceptive fallacies to support his presidential idea. These are opinions. meanwhile back to the drawing board, there are technical know-hows that he (pres) can't just ignore. Mathematical representation of his budget for the year e.g. In mathematics, we memorize the solutions, the constant variables that go with them e.g. the diameter of a radius has a constant variable 3.14. It is always a given fact.
2007-01-29 19:35:13 · update #1
Intelligence is your ability to easily earn and apply knowledge to new sitautions. A musician who learns how to coordinate different instruments to create a symphony must be very intellignet but doesn't need to know how to write computer programs. A psychologist who helps a troubled teen stop acting out and clean-up his act must be very intelligent but doesn't need to know how to measure voltages.
No one is intelligent in everything. You don't need to be. You just need to develop the intelligence you do have in whatever areas you happen to have it.
2007-01-29 12:50:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Technical knowledge is transient. I know a lot of IT people who couldn't survive outside of their jobs. I myself learned enough coding to know that I could specialise in it if I found a need to, but it's far better to know what what it is you don't need to know, rather than what you think you should. It's better to have adaptable intelligence.
Sometimes what passes for common sense is merely consensus rote, and is just as useless as obsolescent skills. Common sense doesn't necessarily make you an entrepreneur, and rote intelligence can make you a slave.
2007-01-30 03:38:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well known that women are 99% emotions and 1% common sense. Unless they are born with more male hormones than other women, thus creating some women who are close to be as smart as us males.
Same with blacks, not as smart as whites. and whites are not as smart as asians. However Id love to have the body of a black guy, well toned and well endowed. Nice !!!
Just the way it is!! Im not predijudice, just stating what has been proven.
Common sense does rule , unless Greed prevails!!
2007-01-29 20:48:49 · answer #3 · answered by gipster1966 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe intelligence is from experience. That is the way humans learn (through experience) and i think it is logical to say that that is where intelligence is derived from.
Knowing "technical know-hows" is more of a foundation for your experiences, but to have a strong understanding of something, your unconscious and conscious must understand that thing and the unconscious learns through experience (as i said) which leads to my conclusion that i said above.
2007-01-29 20:56:52 · answer #4 · answered by sum_guy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To me being intelligent is knowing the facts of everyday life. Whether it be from books or common sense. Aperson becomes wise by knowing the same facts and actually applying it to their everyday life.
2007-01-29 21:06:33 · answer #5 · answered by silent_shadows23 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being intelligent is a fine line that lies between acquired, technical, knowledge & good old fashioned common sense or "street smarts".
2007-01-29 20:40:33 · answer #6 · answered by iNeviTable fuTure 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋