ABSTRACT
In his classic book The Concept of Mind, 1 Gilbert Ryle (1900–1976) envisioned a fundamental incongruity in the “intellectualistic legend”: the idea that people have a mental comparability or capacity of intelligence. For as he saw it, this view leads to an unmanageable regress. To grasp his position, consider the thesis
To do a certain something intelligently is to do it X-wise (where X represents some explanatory accounting).
