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Can you help me understand Derek Parfit's thought experiment?
It is true that Parfit's argument seems to require the assumption "If Kate's strongest desire is to write, then she overworks, making her sometimes self-denying." Then the contrapositive is ...
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Is there a clear, objective difference between intelligence in the arts and the sciences?
The answer, according to Harvardian Howard Gardner and Multiple Intelligence Theory (MI theory), is yes. There are criteria for separating intelligences. From the Wikipedia article:
potential for ...
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Is there a clear, objective difference between intelligence in the arts and the sciences?
can a person with a wide range of interests and with real curiosity, be unintelligent when it comes to mathematics and science?
A person with a wide range of interests and curiosity can certainly ...
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Is there a clear, objective difference between intelligence in the arts and the sciences?
Wikipedia: Intelligence has been defined in many ways: the capacity for
abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional
knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical ...
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