More controversially, they assume that complex behaviours (being "hardworking", inventiveness) are heritable, and that differences between "racial groups" extend to genetically determined personality and intellectual traits.
We're talking about society's most inventive thinkers, its visionaries, its sages, its masterminds: the more you think about the special intellectual traits needed to breach the limits of human understanding, the more preposterous it is to think those people would care whether they had £1m or £100m.
However, as was noted by Settle (1971), it is the rationality and critical attitude built into institutions, rather than the personal intellectual traits of individuals, that distinguishes science from non-scientific practices such as magic.
We have gone so far in de-emphasizing our intellectual traits in mating and dating that we actually cut our heads off in order to attract a mate.
Călinescu viewed such intellectual traits as shared by Creangă with his Wallachian counterpart Anton Pann, in turn linking both writers to the satirical component of Renaissance literature, and specifically to François Rabelais.
Not surprisingly, all three sources of personal stress (health, weight and schoolwork), which relate to physical or intellectual traits, were associated with depression symptoms.
"We have an intellectual trait," he said.
The Bavli's paramount intellectual trait is its quest through abstraction for the unity of the law and the integrity of truth.
The ability to think independently is a psychological trait, not an intellectual trait.
The proud cat dad says Bub is very intellectual, a trait missed by people who judge the perma-kitten on her appearance.
Based on previous longitudinal studies in 22q11DS and schizophrenia [ 13, 14], we expected that the presence of psychotic symptoms would be associated with low general intellectual functioning (trait marker) and a decrease in memory functioning and verbal reasoning abilities (state markers).
