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[–] 54 points 7 months ago (2 children)

This is the reason every table top RPG since the 1980s has had intelligence and wisdom labled as different stats.

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  • [–] 0 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 child)

    I would say that those are separate qualities: if someone had their memory erased, they could lose their knowledge and understanding without losing their intelligence or wisdom. (Intelligence isn’t unrelated, though—it’s what produces understanding from knowledge.)

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  • Intelligence is a skill, it's both inate, and learnable and trainable. I'm pretty sure that that skill would last after memory loss.
    However wisdom comes from experience and knowledge. Without the memory of such things you're wisdom would suffer tremendous.

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