"Some recent philosophers seem to have given their……" — Alfred Binet
"Some recent philosophers seem to have given their moral approval to these deplorable verdicts that affirm that the intelligence of an individual is a fixed quantity, a quantity that cannot be augmented. We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism; we will try to demonstrate that it is founded on nothing."
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Alfred Binet
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10 Quotes by Alfred Binet
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Comprehension, inventiveness, direction, and criticism: intelligence is contained in these four words.
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Our purpose is to be able to measure the intellectual capacity of a child who is brought to us in…
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Mere numbers cannot bring out ... the intimate essence of the experiment. This conviction comes naturally when one watches a…
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I wish that one would be persuaded that psychological experiments, especially those on the complex functions, are not improved [by…
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Could we look into the head of a Chess player, we should see there a whole world of feelings, images,…
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A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he…
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It seems to us that in intelligence there is a fundamental faculty, the alteration or the lack of which, is…
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A few modern philosopher's assert that an individual's intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity which cannot be increased. We…
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The scale, properly speaking, does not permit the measure of the intelligence, because intellectual qualities are not superposable, and therefore…
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