Is that addressed to my quote from last page?

Yeah, edited that like 5 seconds ago.

Actually that was a terrible train of thought on my part, forget I mentioned it

i was about to call him out on that one....

Yeah, took me like 5 or 10 minutes of staring at your post, my post and abstract's post but I finally realized I had the words all messed up.

I dunno, the more I think about it, the more seems kinda silly. Okay, so your intelligence is your capacity for gaining knowledge.
In a practical sense (theoretical brings us nowhere), if there was a very easy measuring unit for gained knowledge (is that what an IQ test is?), your known intelligence could never be higher than your gained knowledge, right?
Yes, theoretically that does not work or make sense. I understand that much before you want to tell me it keg, and I know you do.
So if your known intelligence is never higher than your gained knowledge, you could potentially have the capacity to be the smartest person in the world, but it would not be a possible to test that, so why are we even discussing all of fsgiohntkrltmrsm,b;dkl;a5nywREGAD
gah I dunno anymore. I haven't slept since I woke up at 6:30am on Wed.
this is melting my brain

e: this post took way too long to come up with, fyi

This post was edited by chiefwiggum654 on Dec 11 2008 10:43pm

I understand what you're saying. And you're right when talking in a more practical sense.
I'm just talking about it in the most literal way possible. I'm talking in a biological sense. If intelligence is if you know calculus, how do humans determine the intelligence of animals?

How about this one.
If you didn't know the exact meanings of oppression, depression, repression, suppression, and compression, and you couldn't use context clues, could you define them? If you could, you would probably be using their roots. Did anyone teach you those bases? No (unless you took Latin). But nevertheless you understand what each word means based on your understanding of the English language.

Basically what I'm saying is Intelligence is something you are born with.
It is both your capacity to learn things
and your understanding of things without being need to be taught.

i don't really understand what you mean by "known intelligence" wiggum.

This post was edited by Abstraction on Dec 11 2008 11:02pm

He's seeing it as a fraction:
A/B = I
A = things you know
B = capacity to know things
I = overall intelligence

What I'm saying is your intelligence increases your capacity for knowledge. With your capacity of knowledge increased, you can learn faster and understand things easier.
So it's almost like saying A = BI but not really because just having the capacity to know things doesn't make you know them. I am just saying it gives you a better understanding of information presented to you.

This post was edited by kegman909650 on Dec 11 2008 11:03pm

look at your own definition of intelligence

intelligence is the capacity to understand, not capacity for knowledge. that's memory...

Not necessarily true. It sounds a lot like memory the way you put it, but if you have a high capacity for knowledge, you can know more things that make you appear you have a higher capacity to understand. I guess I'm switching on and off between "literal intelligence" and "practical intelligence". Practical intelligence would be like "that guy knows advanced calculus, he's intelligent."