1488; «qui est expert dans un art, le connaît bien», 1420; lat. intellegens, intelligens, de intellegere «comprendre», de inter-, et legere «recueillir» et «lire».
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PIE leg- : To collect; with derivatives meaning “to speak.”be-ham-âvar (pbp.)
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(xod-)dar-yâb(-anda)
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Education should have two objects: first, to give definite knowledge, reading and writing, language and mathematics, and so on; secondly, to create those mental habits which will enable people to acquire knowledge and form judgements for themselves. The first of these we may call information, the second intellegence.
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One of the chief obstacles to intelligence is credulity, and credulity could be enormously diminished by instruction in the prevalent forms of mendacity.
(B. RUSSELL, Sceptical essays, p. 135, 142)
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hoš-mand/yâr
tiz-huš
farâsat-mand
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"We live in a culture in which intelligence is denied relevance altogether, in a search for radical innocence, or is defended as an instrument of authority and repression. In my view, the only intelligence worth defending is critical, dialectical, skeptical, desimplifying."
(S. SONTAG,
Author Susan Sontag Dies)
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