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>From: kurt@diku.dk (Kurt M. Alonso)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Definitions (I)
Message-ID: <1991Nov15.090528.21429@odin.diku.dk>
Date: 15 Nov 91 09:05:28 GMT
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aiss@aisb.ed.ac.uk (Sven Suska) writes:

>What is Intelligence?

>How would you explain what intelligence is to one of your closest
>friends?
>Would be interested to know.

I would simply refer to the common usage of the term. When we say that 
person A is more intelligent than person B, we mean either that A
has been more succesful in solving a Binet IQ test or that, given that
A and B have similar knowledge in certain domain, A is more likely to 
solve problems in this same domain than B. Or, resuming, intelligence
would be the ability of a subject to solve problems to which solution
he/she/it has not been previously (explicitly or implicitly) exposed.

In any case I believe we would be required to further qualify our
application of the term with the problem domain in which our "measurements"
have taken place.

Anyway, if this definition is all to simplistic, please tell me so.


Kurt.

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>Sven Suska                      aiss@aisb.ed.ac.uk


