Don't you necessarily need to perceive before you can judge? Surely I need to consider possibilities (Ne) before I can analyze them (Ti) regardless of whether I'm INTP or ENTP?
I guess that at some point there would have to be perceptions... however, there can be pure/abstract judgement which I think would just reference the more a priori forms of the given function and needs no stimulus.
However, the point of function order, from what I am understanding, is that in a judgement dominant type, they begin each "new" phase of cognition (writing a post is usually, but not necessarily, a new cognition) by using a judgement function.
Now, there is the idea that no function occurs in total isolation, however at any given time - or at least, much of the time, since there are, according to Pod'lair, such things as synaesthesia (multiple perception functions at once), synecision (multiple judgement functions at once) and synomnia (I forget if this is all functions at once, or simply a mix of a perception function and judgement function at once) - our cognition is dominanted by only one of the 8 functions.
An INTP for example will commence their cognition by focusing on the Ti function, then after this will come Ne, and then Si, and then Fe, and
sometimes this will be followed up by going further into functions 5-8. I have also hypothesised that we use not just one function order, but multiple/all 16, however this is still a more unknown area, so I won't try to argue too strongly that that is the case. Nonetheless, the primary function order i.e. the one corresponding to your type, is the one that is usually shown.
So during the Ti phase, there probably is aspects of the perception functions coming in - and indeed it is true that the Ti will have a distinctly N/Ne or S/Se quality to it - but it is nonetheless the defining feature.
Models which assert things such as perception coming before judgement, or things like top down and bottom up processing occurring in a specific order, do have their place, however they are not quite relevant to function order. I am unsure of their relevance as I do not have a cohesive understanding of any other model of cognition.
So, to give an example, "a cat is a mammal" is a judgement, and so you would think that perception is needed to have an idea of what "cat" means in the first place, but nonetheless, if someone begins a piece of text by saying something like "A cat is a mammal. It has 4 legs and makes a sound referred to as mew/meow. It is commonly domesticated and may be kept as a housepet" then, and correct me if I am wrong, the person is probably Ti dominant. Similarly, beginning with a more descriptive phrase like "The bird flies through the air and loops around in a figure 8 pattern in the air, before safely landing and proceeding to look for worms in the dirt" - then the person is using a perception function (Se I think?), and if they lead new pieces of text with such descriptions, then they are perception (Se) dominant.
There are common themes to how any function uses languages, like, the kind of sentences used, but it's too early yet for me to give a too comprehensive picture of which function corresponds to which kind of sentence. I hope to eventually build up such a description.
