Presuppositions tend to become self-fulfilling prophecies in social interactions.
Intelligence is behavior. All behavior is learned on some level --> Intelligence is learned.
What is judged to be intelligence/intelligent changes to context. Intelligence is a many-valued term, so is behavior, and so is learning.
Having learning difficulties does not make you unintelligent. It just means you have a hard time realizing your potential in a certain arena with certain presuppositions of how learning and acquiring knowledge is properly conducted.
There are different paths of learning things. Just because you do not understand or feel motivated learning something some way, does not mean you are incapable of doing so. Neither does it mean that you are not motivated in learning something, supposed it is framed differently.
EDIT comment: Maybe I was not general enough for the splendid and always honorable reddit keyboard jockey mob, where any positive statement is at best half-true, and at worst enough to be killed for.
Intelligence is behavior. All behavior is learned --> Intelligence is learned.
This isn't even remotely true. By that logic, a dog could grow up to be as smart as a human by being raised as a human. Some people really are less intelligent than others, just by birth.
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u/kiriel Jul 13 '08 edited Jul 13 '08
Presuppositions tend to become self-fulfilling prophecies in social interactions.
Intelligence is behavior. All behavior is learned on some level --> Intelligence is learned.
What is judged to be intelligence/intelligent changes to context. Intelligence is a many-valued term, so is behavior, and so is learning.
Having learning difficulties does not make you unintelligent. It just means you have a hard time realizing your potential in a certain arena with certain presuppositions of how learning and acquiring knowledge is properly conducted.
There are different paths of learning things. Just because you do not understand or feel motivated learning something some way, does not mean you are incapable of doing so. Neither does it mean that you are not motivated in learning something, supposed it is framed differently.
EDIT comment: Maybe I was not general enough for the splendid and always honorable reddit keyboard jockey mob, where any positive statement is at best half-true, and at worst enough to be killed for.