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Originally posted by tw
Reasoning could go both ways. Conclusion would be a function of what one calls intelligence...
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Not to mention what your definition of "is" is.
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Fundamental to the original supposition is that those who don't seek out more knowledge and new perspectives only leave themselves less intelligent, or less competent, or as kbarger said, "a shocking amount of ignorance".
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Erm...you drifted pretty quickly there within a single sentence from talking about "knowlege" to talking about "intelligence".
Don't you agree there is a difference between intelligence and knowlege? I certainly have known people I considered very unintelligent who seemed to *know* a lot...they just didn't put their elements of their knowlege in what seemed to me to be intelligent ways.
I also know people who strike me as quite intelligent that don't seem to know an awful lot about subject matter that I consider inmportant...(I suspect they have quite a bit of knowlege about subjects I know little about). They did wonderful things with the knowlege they did have; our differences over "what knowlege is important" may be be a result of differing life experience, or different values.
While I beleive that intelligent people tend to seek out knowlege, I also think intelligent people can fairly differ on what knowlege is worth pursuing.