Tigner R B, Tigner S S
Division of Social Science, Truman State University, Kirksville, Missouri 63501, USA.
Hist Psychol. 2000 May;3(2):168-76. doi: 10.1037/1093-4510.3.2.168.
Aristotle's triarchic theory of intelligence prefigures, but apparently does not serve directly as a source for, Sternberg's comparable contemporary theory. The indepently derived similarities in their gross structure lend weight to some triarchic view. Sternberg's analytical, practical, and creative intelligences closely resemble Aristotle's theoretical, practical, and productive excellences of intelligence. Each comparable component incorporates significantly related ideas. Disparities may be attributed to a variety of differences in the aims, methods, and resources of Aristotle's and Sternberg's inquiries. This is not the first time in the history of psychology that roughly parallel investigations have yielded comparable theories, but it is surely among the most temporally disjoined.
亚里士多德的智力三元理论预示了斯滕伯格与之类似的当代理论，但显然并非其直接来源。它们总体结构上独立得出的相似性为某种三元观点提供了支持。斯滕伯格的分析性智力、实践性智力和创造性智力与亚里士多德的理论性智力卓越、实践性智力卓越和生产性智力卓越极为相似。每一对可比的组成部分都包含显著相关的观点。差异可能归因于亚里士多德和斯滕伯格研究的目标、方法和资源方面的各种不同。这并非心理学史上首次出现大致平行的研究得出可比的理论，但肯定是时间跨度最大的情况之一。
