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I think it’s relevant. If you study psychology at university you might be taught what intelligence is and then think about how to measure it (a perfectly sensible question to ask).
If you study philosophy at university you’re much more likely to think about questions like “what is intelligence?”.
Along those lines, the philosopher doesn’t necessarily challenge whether or not an IQ test is a valid measure of what we commonly understand intelligence to be. They question whether the thing it measures is really a complete definition of intelligence (and they have a point IMO).
Lammetje98 t1_iwuvlfk wrote
Psychology also knows it’s not a complete measure, and we don’t assume it is. It’s one operationalization of a very complex construct.
mementoTeHominemEsse t1_iwv01a3 wrote
No matter your precise definition of intelligence, I assume you, and anyone for that matter, defines it as an array of mental abilities. What mental abilities exactly you think form intelligence isn't that relevant, because IQ tests test the essence of pretty much all mental abilities.
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