I have a conception of intelligence. Namely, it seems to me that rationalism got it wrong as did Hume and empiricism. Intelligence seems to me to be a faculty to model or mirror reality. This is possibly the strongest argument I can imagine for the correspondence theory of language and meaning. But, then the question seems to arise that how is "grasping" of concepts possible. To "grasp" a concept seems like some fundamentally transcendent conception of the mind a priori.

Plato, most likely, coined the term "noesis" as this "phenomenon". I wonder when did the stipulation or neologism of of the term arise. Plato passed on his knowledge of noesis to what I was told in college, as the last man who understood everything, being Aristotle. Aristotle then began something unseen of creating disciplines and fields of philosophy that later became the foundations of "science".

I wonder what did Wittgenstein think about Plato. Supposedly he was disliked by him, and so, he pretty much concluded, after the Tractatus, that language was both a correspondence and coherentist theory about reality.

I wonder what other people think about this idea of intelligence and philosophy?