One of the most important criteria for intelligence is openness: openness to criticism and to alternative ways of comprehending a thing (possibly held simultaneously by the mind so that it may rotate between alternative frameworks to find a better one, and also to be found from the imagination, the creative process, the process of reasoning, or interlocution with others). Of great utility towards the end of being open are logical and conceptual tools, such as uncertainty itself and deductive (a priori) reasoning. One must always subject one's theories to doubt. That kind of humility results in wisdom, tolerance, and, ultimately, a far greater satisfaction of the goals that the mind in question sets its sights upon.

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