[2143]

> 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 have found the opposite personality — somebody who is fully confident about themselves.

[BeetleB]

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]

In some sense, isn't making flawed arguments an intelligence flaw by definition?

[mistermann]

Not necessarily.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Logical_truth&d...

https://iep.utm.edu/gettier/

For example:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickster

[thfuran]

That depends on the flaw and whether you'd consider lacking omniscience to be a sign of low intelligence.

[samatman]

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.