When I was growing up I had no reason to doubt my parents who described intelligence as the ability to think rationally and eventually develop common sense. My naive assumption was that common sense is natural as well as common. And, that it is structured in logic, generally shared by thinking adults that upon examination of an issue would come to similar conclusions.
According to Piaget children engage in what he called “magical thinking” until about the age of 7 but I fear that th...
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