The word intelligence is... «Science, Order and Creativity»
Psilentium10 июня 2018The word intelligence is often used in a general and fairly loose way today, but something of its original force can be found in the Latin root intelligere, which carries the sense of “to gather in between.” It recalls the colloquialism “to read between the lines.” In this sense, intelligence is the mind’s ability to perceive what lies “in between” and to create new categories. This notion of intelligence, which acts as the key creative factor in the formation of new categories, can be contrasted with the intellect. The past participle of intelligere is in fact intellect, which could then be thought of as “what has been gathered.” Intellect, therefore, is relatively fixed, for it is based primarily on an already existing scheme of categories. While the intelligence is a dynamic and creative act of perception through the mind, the intellect is something more limited and static. This distinction can be highlighted by suggesting that the IQ test should be more properly said to measure an intellect quotient than an intelligence quotient.
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