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A Wise Agent is a self-aware agent who often makes wise choices.
- Context:
- They can (typically) apply Wise Heuristics, such as aphorisms.
- They can (typically) have Wide-Ranging Knowledge.
- They can (typically) have Cognitive Coherence (and low Cognitive Dissonance).
- They can (typically) make few Unwise Choices.
- They can range from (typically) being a Wise Person to being a Wise Machine.
- They can give Wise Advice.
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- Example(s):
- Counter-Example(s):
- an Unwise Agent, such as a well-meaning unwise agent.
- a Selfish Agent.
- See: Folly, Cardinal Virtue, Virtue, Passions (Philosophy).
References
2022
- (Wikipedia, 2022) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/wisdom Retrieved:2022-12-3.
- Wisdom, sapience, or sagacity is the ability to contemplate and act using knowledge, experience, understanding, common sense and insight. Wisdom is associated with attributes such as unbiased judgment, compassion, experiential self-knowledge, self-transcendence and non-attachment, and virtues such as ethics and benevolence. Wisdom has been defined in many different ways, including several distinct approaches to assess the characteristics attributed to wisdom.
2013
- http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wisdom#Noun
- Template:Uncountable An element of personal character that enables one to distinguish the wise from the unwise.
- Template:Countable A piece of wise advice.
- The discretionary use of knowledge for the greatest good.
- The ability to apply relevant knowledge in an insightful way, especially to different situations from that in which the knowledge was gained.
- The ability to make a decision based on the combination of knowledge, experience, and intuitive understanding.
- Template:Theology The ability to know and apply spiritual truths.
- 1652, Eugenius Philalethes, The Fame and Confeſſion of the Fraternity of…the Roſie Croſs, pages 1–2 of the preface
- Wiſdom…is to a man an infinite Treaſure, for ſhe is the Breath of the Power of God, and a pure Influence that floweth from the Glory of the Almighty; ſhe is the Brightneſs of Eternal Light, and an undefiled Mirror of the Majeſty of God, and an Image of his Goodneſs; ſhe teacheth us Soberneſs and Prudence, Righteouſneſs and Strength; ſhe underſtands the Subtilty of words, and Solution of dark ſentences; ſhe foreknoweth Signs and Wonders, and what ſhall happen in time to come.
- 1652, Eugenius Philalethes, The Fame and Confeſſion of the Fraternity of…the Roſie Croſs, pages 1–2 of the preface
- ↑ "Wisdom is the right use of knowledge." --Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)