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English translation: correct interpretation / right understanding


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Spanish term or phrase:recta inteligencia
English translation:correct interpretation / right understanding
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16:18 Jul 13, 2011
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Philosophy
Spanish term or phrase: recta inteligencia
FRom a text about the history of education:

Los neologismos medievales fueron suplantados por sus equivalente clásicos; la recta inteligencia de los textos antiguos era imprescindible para los futuros abogados o médicos;

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Wendy Gosselin
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correct interpretation / right understanding
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Summary of answers provided
3 +5correct interpretation / right understanding
DLyons
4the clearly expressed intelligence
Jenni Lukac
4honest/upright/honorable/respectible
Simon Bruni
3strict knowledge
Sam Cogdell
3unquestionable logicTatty
3plain intellect
Wendy Streitparth
3straight intelligencexxxFVS
3plain intellect, common sense ?K Reidland


  

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correct interpretation / right understanding


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DLyons
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agree  anademahomar: Totally!
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agree  Jim Tucker
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agree  Rafael Alvarez Lucena
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agree  Lucia Colombino
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agree  Sam Cogdell
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honest/upright/honorable/respectible


Explanation:
From the Oxford English:

recto
2 (honrado) honest, upright

Simon Bruni
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straight intelligence


Explanation:
Not really sure of this but there are loads of references to 'straight intelligence'.

e.g.
That could work in a setting with Amodern education system. If you want to use it in your game it's certainly a workable option. Another viable option, as mentioned above, is to just use straight intelligence checks for knowledge not covered by the presented skills.

However, the game is designed to take place in a medieval european type setting. In that setting a person would be much more likely to study a specific subject intensively than to have a well rounded modern education. Schools in the modern sense simply didn't exist. This is probably why the designers didn't include an "Education" skill. It didn't fit into the setting they were creating.

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2 Jul 2010 – Give him a role that he CAN live up to… in fact, if you want to talk straight intelligence, he is brighter than most in that dressing room. ...



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plain intellect


Explanation:
http://books.google.com/books?hl=de&id=wX0rRg0xZiMC&q=plain ...
"When I see a man like George Peabody - a man of plain intellect and moderate education - ..."

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the clearly expressed intelligence


Explanation:
or the clear intelligence expressed in... Another interpretation.

Jenni Lukac
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plain intellect, common sense ?


Explanation:
Plain intellect sounds very good in this context.
However, the author may have been referring to
something more akin to the term, "common sense".



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unquestionable logic


Explanation:
Or irreprochable may be. I don't think texts have intellect or intelligence though. Intelligent nature would work, but I think that this would be tantamount to the logic, reasoning or rationale of the texts.

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strict knowledge


Explanation:
Room for one more? Just another possibility.

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Looking at the DRAE definitions for *recta* and *inteligencia*, how would "strict understanding" work here?

Recto/recta:
5. adj. Se dice del sentido primitivo o literal de las palabras, a diferencia del traslaticio o figurado

http://drae2.es/recto

inteligencia:
"Sentido en que se puede tomar una sentencia, un dicho o una expresión"

http://drae2.es/inteligencia


Example sentence(s):
  • Bacon promotes a strict knowledge of science and geometry as a way of understanding how God's grace orders the created world:
  • this book is based on the original meanings and usage of the mantras, a strict knowledge of ancient Sanskrit

    Reference: http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft209nb...
    Reference: http://www.scribd.com/doc/35810245/Frawley-David-Wisdom-of-t...
Sam Cogdell
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