mgresham@artsnet.UUCP (Mark Gresham) (01/25/91)
In article <16440@venera.isi.edu> smoliar@venera.isi.edu (Stephen Smoliar) writes: >In article <1150@artsnet.UUCP> mgresham@artsnet.UUCP (Mark Gresham) writes: >> As somewhere else rattling about 'experience' vs. 'intelligence' >>has been going on, I now throw in my two cents worth: >> >Mark, while I appreciate your efforts to try to make sense out of a >philosophical debate which seems to get more clouded with every contribution, >I must confess to being concerned that there are too many highly-charged words >in your above text. I do not mean this as a personal attack so much as a wail >of frustration that we all keep getting slammed back against these words like >"intelligence" and "knowledge," [...] Minor adjustment on my part from one highly charged word to another: I should have said "intellect" instead of "intelligence." All-in-all, what I was hoping to juggle these words into is some sort of clearer definitions and clearer relationship to each other. I have to depend upon personal uses of these words, which, of course, have developed in part through encounters with other person's peculiar uses and my own adoption/adaptation/misunderstandings of them. I don't use "knowledge" in the same way that I think Cage does, i.e. "knowledge"="intellect" and vs. "experience." Instead, I use the words "intellect" and "experience" as terms for different kinds of "knowledge" (another is "intuition", and there's a fourth but haven't settled on the best word for it yet). Perhaps I'm reverting to my old "toss and see where it lands" posting style, in the manner of when I first posted on the net some time ago. The problem with all this is the same problem with music theory: trying to represent a dynamic of events in a static model. (Paraphrase Fuller: we need more verbs, fewer nouns.) Cheers, --Mark ======================================== Mark Gresham ARTSNET Norcross, GA, USA E-mail: ...gatech!artsnet!mgresham or: artsnet!mgresham@gatech.edu ========================================