One of the impoverishing aspects of our insight into English court life during the sixteenth century, not solely attributable to the Reformation, was its dire quality of official portraiture. For some reason the fabulous artistic capabilities on offer from the early Dutch masters were spurned by Mary Queen of Scots and by Elizabeth, although Elizabeth’s older half-sister and predecessor Mary Tudor, the Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 until her death in 1558, did hire the services of Antonis Mor, who produced this beautiful likeness (I will only provide a link partial link, missing the https, because the jpg is very large and will disrupt the thread - please type https in front of the colon to see the portrait):
Mor was by no means the greatest or most renowned portraitist of his time. But he painted in the courts of Spain and France, and also plied his trade in England. Perhaps his finest work is this extraordinary and grave study of the merchant and financier Sir Thomas Gresham the Elder:
Endorsement of this article is not implied, but it is an example of a non-foundational take on intelligence for its situation in biological, therefore, interactive, evolutionary praxis:
The verifiability of I.Q. tests and DNA correspondences would seem to be among the greater scientific challenges to the call for phronesis in the context of praxis.
However, when it is understood that we are talking about the multi-interactive social realm, it does not appear quite so sloppy an appeal to kill the joys and warrants of scientific rigor (and again, the aim of pragmatism is warranted assertability).
Furthermore, as with all matters in a social constructionist perspective, when events come closer to indisputable fact, social agency is not so much a matter of active construction but more a matter of post hoc determination of how those facts count for us. For example, you can dispute such and such a fact, but if 99% of the people are able to see it and say that it counts in this particular way, especially if they have operational verifiability behind them, then they are warranted to consider your insistence to the contrary something to be dismissed.
Nevertheless, with all due respect for the cross contextual replicability of I.Q. tests, and general intelligence…
One I.Q. test being proferred seems to be largely a matter of testing for short term memory storage and quick access - e.g., repeat 9, 8, 7 numbers backwards and so on… the more numbers you can repeat backwards the higher your I.Q.
Consider taking that to the realm of Praxis.
Is the overall social system more intelligent if specific memory is relegated to specific individuals or archives, particularly if these are matters not normally necessary, and can divert from more important concerns?
Another provocation. In the game of social coordination, it may sometimes be the case that a pair with fairly limited repertoire as individuals may combine to produce complex results while individuals with complex repertoires might coordinate for only a very simple, if not poor result.
If E-Michael Jones says Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle is replicating the science of Jewish relativism for its claim that the mere interaction of observing sub atomic particles has refexive effect; and he gives the counter example that the planets do not change their orbits upon observation, the rebut would seem to be that the uncertainty principle would apply to the adjustability, the reflexivity, of the very framework through which planetary orbits are observed. Now, refelxive changes and changes in framework may indeed be trivial in the matter of physics (pleroma) but are more valid in the realm of Praxis - how people (creatura) philosophize their way of life among others - how they adjust the facts to their relative interests. In fact, capacity to recognize refelxive effects and that broader adjustment of framework to transcend the arbitraryiness of mere facticity with the heremeneutic capacity for individual and group historic/systemic coherence, accountability agency and warrant is crucial.
Posted by Elizabeth I of England on Wed, 16 Jan 2019 12:39 | #
Amen