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> He's as smart as I am, so it wasn't an intelligence flaw. I literally wow-ed out loud. I've always felt everybody around me is much smarter than me. Now I h

• BeetleB 2y ago
  I get that the comment came across as arrogant. However you misunderstood the point. It's not that I'm very smart, but that a superior intelligence was not the factor in me finding glasses in his reasoning. It can't be, because as I pointed out, my intelligence is not superior to his. Of course I do get your point that I should consider whether both he and I are simply not that intelligent and that's the reason I find flaws in his arguments. It's logically sound, but I'll cling to my doubts regarding it's accuracy :-)
  • jstanley 2y ago
    In some sense, isn't making flawed arguments an intelligence flaw by definition?
    • thfuran 2y ago
      That depends on the flaw and whether you'd consider lacking omniscience to be a sign of low intelligence.
    • mistermann 2y ago
      Not necessarily. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Logical_truth&diffonly=true https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Logical_truth&d... https://iep.utm.edu/gettier/ https://iep.utm.edu/gettier/ For example: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickster https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickster
    • samatman 2y ago
      Argument is an art of rhetoric, not logic. Many very smart people make flawed arguments, sometimes instinctively, sometimes deliberately. I'm not saying they should. In fact, I'll now say: they shouldn't. But whatever defect this habit is evidence of, it isn't necessarily a defect of their intelligence. Sometimes, but not always, or even usually.