On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 4:28 PM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > As soon as you refer to IQ you lose me. Can you restate your argument > without such mythology. >
You are being very unfair. I referred to IQ only to point to its absurdity. -raghu. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:pen-l- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of raghu > Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 3:44 PM > To: Progressive Economics > Subject: Re: [Pen-l] The Rise of the Evolutionary Psychology Douchebag > > On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I think it was Hobbes who said something to the effect tht there was > more difference between two dogs than between any two persons. But if > you go back and read comments on Bush both on this list and lbo-talk you > will find innumerable posts which focus on Bush's "stu0idity." In other > words, leftists often find it impossible to talk about a politician or a theorist > without implying that there is a difference of intelligence involved. But > intelligence (intellect) is NOT a feature of persons; it is a matter of context. A > person is either intelligent or unintelligent in relation to contexts. All > statements aboaut the intelligence or lack of it in individuals are false. Bush > was obviously more intelligent than Obama, since Obama has been able to > do nothing except cross the t's and dot thei's and add italics to Bush's policy > initiativesd. > > > > > > That was probably me. I continue to maintain that Barack Obama is > objectively a more intelligent man than George W. Bush. > > > Your argument above is a fallacy. > > You start with one idea (there is something called "intelligence" that can be > measured by IQ tests and is an innate quality of individuals and is inheritable > in large measure, and there are identifiable DNA segments that determine > this quality in individuals). > > > You rightly recognize the absurdity of this idea. But then you use this as a > straw-man to infer and assert the extreme opposite of this idea ("there is no > such thing as "intelligence". every human being is equally intelligent > depending entirely on context"). > > > I say nonsense. Intelligence is like beauty - it may be in the eyes of the beer- > holder, but there are attractive people and there are ugly people. > > -raghu. _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >
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