sagacity

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I said it's a nice sounding quote, and I did mean that in the LessWrong sense of "false sagacity.

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the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations

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noun

the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations

noun

the trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and evaluating

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for sagacity.

noun

the mental ability to understand and discriminate between relations

noun

the trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and evaluating

Example sentences

I said it's a nice sounding quote, and I did mean that in the LessWrong sense of "false sagacity.

The only phrase which really is "too French" here is "proposes to the sagacity of its admirers".

At the time though I didn't have the sagacity to realize the economic incentives of owning a flock of chicken.

"Surely the joke is the peasant's mispronunciation of "sagacity"?

The process of interview indeed, requires a very good amount of skill and sagacity on the part of the interviewer.

I would assume they're selected because they can contribute some form of sagacity to the majority of issues.

The sagacity of the move to 64-bit is explained in terms of getting rid of cruft, and via analogy to a similar move by Intel on the x86 line.

The "dynamic typing is only for tiny puny baby child's toy programs" meme does not reveal your sagacity; it reveals your ignorance.

People here also often confuse their understanding of technology with legal/ethical sagacity, which is laughable.

Meditation is examination not supression or control.>“We looked at wisdom and its synonyms, like sagacity, and antonyms, like foolishness, folly,” says Jeste.

So, as a job title, I'd say it sounds pretentious and a bit out of touch, like someone who right clicked on the word "engineer" and espoused an adventitious synonym in order to have the earmarks of sagacity.

Groklaw has been a fantastic resource, reporting on important legal developments affecting IP with a depth, sagacity, and honesty that is not easily found elsewhere.

Of course, I was too lazy to actually research any of his claims, but he was pretty eloquent:"Paradoxical in its manifestations, disconcerting in its signs, the Middle Ages proposes to the sagacity of its admirers the resolution of a singular misconception.

He showed an extraordinary sagacity.”It reminds me of Ramanujan, another exceptionally gifted and devoted mathematician who acquired most of his education on his own, and was very nearly lost to history but for the efforts of a few well-connected officials who could see his potential.