On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 8:06 PM, LizR <lizj...@gmail.com> wrote: > and I thought intelligence was the easy one. But yes, using the same > definitions is important >
Except for pure mathematics definitions are rarely important, most people have never looked at a dictionary since high school and they manage to get through life OK, and after all examples are where lexicographers got the information to write their dictionary in the first place; much more important than definitions are examples. Intelligence is that quality of mind that Einstein had in greater abundance than the average man; a logician might say that is not perfectly precise and they'd be right, but it's precise enough to work with > a lot of megabytes have been wasted because people don't agree on what > something means > Yes but definitions are still not needed to agree on meaning, if you say that Einstein was not intelligent then I don't know what you mean by the word but I do know you don't mean what I do by "intelligent". > (I won't mention free will...oops.) > In that case not only is there no definition but there isn't even 2 consistent examples where X has free will and Y does not that makes any sense. John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
