Suppertime. You had a busy day running
errands, eliminating a variety of squeaks from the garage door, fixing the lawn
sprinkler then putting it to use. Tomorrow you are up to Kim and Paul’s to meet
Kim for lunch, then stopping by Uncle John’s to wish him well as he has been
moved from his apartment to the assisted care wing of the Methodist Senior Centre
on River Road in Dublin. Carol’s sister, Gayle, will meet you and Carol at the
senior centre at one-thirty. – Amorella
1747 hours. I am at Pine Hill Lakes waiting for Carol to
complete her walk-around. I washed both cars at Mike’s then spent time spot
cleaning them both afterwards as well as the interiors. They are looking good. Last
night we watched a new show from the night before “Blind Spot” – it is pretty
good (and had a three out of four review) so we will continue until it isn’t. “Limitless”,
also new, received a poor review so we didn’t give it a chance. I regret this
in that we should have given it a showing first then decided. Maybe the pilot
will be on later in the week or just before the next showing. It has been
another beautiful Fall day; almost a typical San Diego, California day – very nice.
I am still thinking about “ULTIMATE INTELLECT” (from yesterday’s post) because
I don’t know what it means.
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intellect –
noun
the
faculty of reasoning and understanding objectively, especially with regard to
abstract or academic matters: he was a man of action rather than of
intellect.
•
the understanding or mental powers of a particular person: his keen
intellect.
•
an intelligent or intellectual person: sapping our country of some of its
brightest intellects.
ORIGIN
late Middle English:
from Latin intellectus ‘understanding,’ from intellegere ‘understand’
(see intelligent)
intelligent –
adjective
having
or showing intelligence, especially of a high level: Annabelle is
intelligent and hardworking | an intelligent guess.
•
(of a device, machine, or building) able to vary its state or action in
response to varying situations, varying requirements, and past experience.
•
(especially of a computer terminal) incorporating a microprocessor and having
its own processing capability.
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and edited from Oxford/American software
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Intellect is a term used in studies of the human mind, and refers to the
ability of the mind to come to correct conclusions about what is true or real,
and about how to solve problems. Historically the term comes from the Greek
philosophical term nous, which was translated into Latin as intellectus (derived from the verb intelligere)
and into French (and then English) as intelligence.
Discussion
of the intellect can be divided into two broad areas. In both of these areas,
the terms "intellect" and "intelligence" have continued to
be used as related words.
Intellect and Nous in philosophy. In philosophy, especially in classical and
medieval philosophy and the intellect or nous
is an important subject connected to the question of how humans can know things.
Especially during late antiquity and the middle ages, the intellect was often
proposed as a concept which could reconcile philosophical and scientific
understandings of nature with monotheistic religious understandings, by making
the intellect a link between each human soul, and the divine intellect (or
intellects) of the cosmos itself. (During the Latin Middle Ages a distinction
developed whereby the term "intelligence" was typically used to refer
to the incorporeal beings which governed the celestial spheres in many of these
accounts.)
Intellect and Intelligence in
psychology. In modern psychology and
neuroscience, intelligence and intellect are used as terms describing mental
ability (or abilities) that allow people to understand. A distinction is
sometimes made whereby intellect is considered to be related to
"facts" in contrast to intelligence concerning "feelings". Intellect
refers to the cognition and rational mental processes gained through external
input rather than internal.
A person
who uses intelligence (thought and reason) and critical or analytical reasoning
in either a professional or a personal capacity is often referred to as an
intellectual.
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2050
hours. Reading this carefully or perhaps not so carefully, I wonder if a real
intellect has any wits surrounding or within her or him.
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Wit is a form of intelligent humour, the ability to say or write
things that are clever and usually funny. A wit is a person skilled at
making clever and funny remarks. Forms of wit include the quip
and repartee.
Forms of wit
As in
the wit of Dorothy Parker’s set, the Algonquin Round Table, witty remarks may
be intentionally cruel (as in many epigrams), and perhaps more ingenious than
funny.
A quip
is an observation or saying that has some wit but perhaps descends into sarcasm,
or otherwise is short of a point, and a witticism also suggests the diminutive.
Repartee is the wit of the quick answer and capping comment: the snappy
comeback and neat retort. (Wilde: "I wish I'd said that." Whistler: "You
will, Oscar, you will".)
Wit in poetry
Wit in
poetry is characteristic of metaphysical poetry as a style, and was prevalent
in the time of English playwright Shakespeare, who admonished pretension with
the phrase "Better a witty fool than a foolish wit". It may combine
word play with conceptual thinking, as a kind of verbal display requiring
attention, without intending to be laugh-aloud funny; in fact wit can be a thin
disguise for more poignant feelings that are being versified. English poet John
Donne is the representative of this style of poetry.
Further meanings
More
generally, one's wits are one's intellectual powers of all types. Native wit —
meaning the wits with which one is born — is closely synonymous with common
sense. To live by one's wits is to be an opportunist, but not always of the
scrupulous kind. To have one's wits about one is to be alert and capable of
quick reasoning. To be at the end of one's wits is to be immensely frustrated.
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edited from Wikipedia (or perhaps by now Wiktionary) – Wit (Humor)
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2105 hours. The definition above clearly shows I have a bit
of sourness and meanness jammed between my toes and the top of my head – that I
am an opportunist, and not a very scrupulous one at that. I am not gravestone
rational; this is without question.
Your sophomoric
mind sometimes twists your heart into a deep anger that you are not so smart,
and yet understand how perfectly true this is. Your arrogance rises only to the
point where your humility has a blanket under which you can hide, boy. Post. –
Amorella
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