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• spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Knowledge is a separate thing from intelligence. Even the smartest person in the world is ignorant of tons of stuff because it hasn’t come up in their life yet.

  Intelligence can make it easier to collect knowledge, or to better understand it, but they are separate things.

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  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve always seen the distinction as:

    • knowledge = the body of facts
    • wisdom = ability to apply knowledge to situations in the world and your life

    In our society the word “smart” can be applied to either one. Ken Jennings, legendary game show player of Jeopardy, is considered smart because of his extensive depth of knowledge of trivia. I content Method Man (and other members of the Wu-Tang Clan) along with Raider Ruckus are wise for encapsulating the idea of “Cash rules everything around me, C.R.E.A.M., get the money, Dollar, dollar bill y’all”.

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