If you exclude reading, writing, speaking, and listening (ie use of language, including math or code) as mere table stakes, how would you define “intellectual” in terms of essential non-language behaviors that non-intellectuals typically don’t exhibit?
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I can’t tell whether you’re asking “except height” or “except playing basketball”
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So you’re saying “intellectual” is as finitely circumscribed an activity as basketball? Intellectualism *is* use of language the way basketball is playing basketball?
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