There Katarina and 15 other young girls sipped tea and were tutored on the four qualities every princess worthy of a tiara with snap-on plastic jewels possesses: intelligence, grace, thoughtfulness and honesty.
Like Anaxagoras, Diogenes claims that the cosmic system is ordered by intelligence, and he argues that that "which possesses intelligence (noēsis) is what human beings call air" (B5).
Even Clifford Slayman, the Yale biologist who signed the 2007 letter dismissing plant neurobiology, is willing to acknowledge that, although he doesn't think plants possess intelligence, he does believe they are capable of "intelligent behavior," in the same way that bees and ants are.
4. Possessing intelligence, precision, and alertness.
The parents did not inherit doctors' degrees; they earned them because they possessed intelligence and drive.
Does the United States possess intelligence that exposes Pakistani officials hiding bin Laden?
If persons respond intelligently (e.g., by reasoning correctly) on an ability test, it can be safely inferred that they possess intelligence to some degree.
Yet it is also noteworthy that where the European fairytale heroine was merely expected to be beautiful, a desirable Muslim maiden is also expected to possess intelligence.
Lila, she thinks, "possessed intelligence and didn't put it to use but, rather, wasted it, like a great lady for whom all the riches in the world are merely a sign of vulgarity".
For example, in other cases the individual may possess intelligence that can end the war more quickly, and in that case, the better treatment may be to detain them using military authority".
So, there is a possible world doubtless one quite remote from the actual world in which a digital computer simulates intelligence but in which the digital computer does not itself possess intelligence.
