Intellect:

intellect: the faculty of knowing and reasoning; power of thought; understanding; analytic intelligence. ~ (Oxford Dictionary)

Intellectualism:

intellectualism [after Greek ‘intellektualismus’]: 1. (philos.) the doctrine that knowledge is derived from the action of the intellect or pure reason; 2 devotion to intellectual pursuits; (excessive) exercise of the intellect rather than the emotions. (Oxford Dictionary).

Intelligence:

Intelligence is the cognitive faculty of understanding and comprehending (as in intellect and sagacity) ... which means the cerebral ability to sensibly and thus judiciously think, remember, reflect, appraise, plan, and implement considered activity for beneficial purposes (and to be able to rationally convey reasoned information to other human beings so that coherent knowledge can accumulate around the world and to the next generations).

• intelligence: the faculty of understanding; intellect [the faculty of knowing and reasoning]; quickness or superiority of understanding, sagacity [acuteness of mental discernment; soundness of judgement, shrewdness]; the action or fact of understanding something; knowledge, comprehension (of something). (Oxford Dictionary)

• ‘intelligence: the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience; intelligent: having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree (‘is there intelligent life in the universe?’). (WordNet 1.7)

• ‘intelligence: the capacity to acquire and apply knowledge; the faculty of thought and reason. (The American Heritage® Dictionary)

• ‘intelligence: the ability to learn, understand and make judgments or have opinions that are based on reason. (Cambridge International Dictionary)

• ‘intelligence: the ability to learn or understand or to deal with new or trying situations; reason, also the skilled use of reason; the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one’s environment or to think abstractly as measured by objective criteria (as tests); mental acuteness, shrewdness; the act of understanding, comprehension. (Merriam-Webster Dictionary)

The whole furore about what intelligence is really is quite amusing: there are people who talk sagely about dolphins, for just one example, as being ‘intelligent’ and will argue their case vigorously and vociferously and scorn IQ (Intelligence Quotient) tests as being a measure of intelligence. Yet when these self-same people turn their attention to ‘outer space’ or ‘deep space’ (as the SETI peoples do), they all of a sudden know precisely what intelligence actually is ... when they say that they are searching for extraterrestrial intelligence they do not for one moment mean that they are looking for ‘intelligent’ creatures like dolphins, for example.

No way ... they are looking for what intelligence actually is as per the dictionary definition.

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