# Multiple Intelligences **Domain:** Psychology / Education / Intelligence Theory **Doc Type:** Theory Node **Maturity:** Developing **Related:** [[Howard Gardner]], [[Cognitive Science]], [[Artificial Intelligence]] --- ## Definition **Multiple intelligences** is [[Howard Gardner|Howard Gardner’s]] theory that human competence is better understood through several relatively distinct capacities than through a single general measure alone. ## Evidence Boundary The theory has been influential in education and contested in psychometrics. In this corpus it is used to resist undefined, one-dimensional uses of “intelligence,” not to claim that its categories are settled neural modules. ## Backlinks [[Howard Gardner]]