"Sensible," again

[redbird]

It occurred to me, belatedly, that "sensible" is an aspect of intelligence. I have no trouble thinking of myself as smart. Maybe it's that I've heard too many people talk about the difference between practical intelligence and more abstract stuff, and thus don't give myself enough credit for the former.

There's also the persistent subtext that "sensible" is the opposite of "exciting" and "attractive," as in "sensible shoes" (not that I'd wear any other kind--but shoes aren't where I want to get my excitement). That probably goes with me thinking "Why does cattitude get to be the crazy uncle, when I'm the sensible aunt?"

Comments

[carandol.livejournal.com]

Dungeons and Dragons has the seperate stats of Intelligence and Wisdom. You can be high in either, both, or neither. Characters with high INT tend to be well educated and intellectual, whereas people with high WIS tend to be intuitive and common-sensical. In the game I'm running at the moment, one of my player's characters has very high WIS but very low INT, which means she notices stuff that other people don't notice, but then draws completely the wrong conclusions from it.