Suppose someone says, “He resembles his teacher in foresight, caution and discretion.” Foresight, caution and discretion are three independent intellectual traits. If one is absent, the other two similarities may still hold. This independence marks a multiple intellectual comparison.
By contrast, “recognising danger in time and applying an effective response during a crisis” may describe one coordinated intellectual situation. The actions jointly produce the intended outcome and need not be separately targeted similarities.
The decisive question is whether each feature stands as its own relation between the terms or whether the intended resemblance appears only in their organised combination. This guards against confusing multiple qualities with a composite quality.