Forms of Knowledge

Maybe this belongs in intellegent discussion, but i don't really care.

I've got a project in school so i need to do a speach on "Is science the supreme form of knowledge?" Science is purely factual so I'm wondering how many of you can think of types of intellegence other than straight facts. If you can that would be a huge help! thx

 

I think science is the supreme form of knowledge, but there is a catch.

If science can prove that like for example the univerese was made by a big bang theory, but on the other hand, religion thinks otherwise, religion think that god made the universe. So okay.....i really have no idea if science really is supreme, maybe it is, maybe it maybe......

well mostly a maybe since science always has a another story from another belief

 

There are lots of theories of intelligence.

Thurman produced the "Seven Primary Intelligences":
- Word fluency
- verbal comprehension
- spatial ability
- perceptual speed
- numerical ability
- inductive reasoning
- memory.

Raymond Cattell and John Horn divided Intelligence into two categories:
- Fluid Intelligence--which mostly pertains to a person's reasoning ability, memory capacity and how well a person can process information.
- Crystallized Intelligence--gauges how well a person *applies* acquired knowledge in problem solving situations.

More prominent in today's society was Steinberg's Triarchic theory of Intelligence, which divides Intelligence into three major types:

Contextual subtheory: these are intelligences that are considered 'gifts' or 'talents' based on the surrounding culture. For example, in more ancient societies, they probably would've considered 'hunting' a type of intelligence, whereas in today's culture--where hunting isn't much of a necessarity for human survival with the rise of industrialization, we may not consider it the same way.

Experiential subtheory: This refers to how people deal with new problems and tasks and situations as they're first experienced to them. As well, it also refers to how people handle familiar tasks that they have learned before in later occurrences.

Componential subtheory: Refers to certain cognitive components that deal with acquisition of knowledge and the performance of human tasks.

More recent research of Steinberg's recategorized the three into more lament/practical subcategories:

Practical Intelligence: This refers to the ability for people to deal effectively with the kinds of problems that people encounter in everyday life

Analytical Intelligence: This refers to things like abstract reasoning, evaluation, judgment—what most standard IQ tests measure

Creative Intelligence: This refers to people's ability to generate new ideas and to be inventive in dealing with novel problems.

Other theories include Garner's "Eight Intelligences":
- Logical-mathematical
- Linguistic
- Musical
- Spatial
- Bodily-kinesthetic
- Interpersonal
- Intrapersonal
- Naturalist (Very odd in my opinion; knowing processes as they occur in nature as its own category)

Recently, "Emotional Intelligence" arose as an important intelligence, which refers to people's ability to perceive and express emotion, assimilate emotion in thought, understand and reason with emotion, and regulate emotion. This type of intelligence has gained some very significant importance in the workplace, and a facet that many employers use to find new workers and employees that deal with other people.

 

you could just use that for your speech. :p

 

lol. I probably could. My class also tends to talk a lot which will run up the clock faster. Which is a good thing since I have a minimum time of 15 min and a maximum of 55 (the length of the class period).