While your questions are interesting because they poke at the definition of a word like "intelligence," which can be construed to mean very different things by different people, your last statement is just plain weird. A person wrote a thing. The reader of the thing is free to decide what's factual and what's opinion--just as you've done…
While your questions are interesting because they poke at the definition of a word like "intelligence," which can be construed to mean very different things by different people, your last statement is just plain weird. A person wrote a thing. The reader of the thing is free to decide what's factual and what's opinion--just as you've done, and just as others have done, with individual results all around. My particular definition of the word "intelligence" means that I took his statement at face value. Your own definition of the same word causes you to question the way he worded his statement. /shrug/ Dangers abound in any case.
While your questions are interesting because they poke at the definition of a word like "intelligence," which can be construed to mean very different things by different people, your last statement is just plain weird. A person wrote a thing. The reader of the thing is free to decide what's factual and what's opinion--just as you've done, and just as others have done, with individual results all around. My particular definition of the word "intelligence" means that I took his statement at face value. Your own definition of the same word causes you to question the way he worded his statement. /shrug/ Dangers abound in any case.