Explain the difference between S and N please?

[Dimensional Transition]

To be honest, I don't completely understand the difference between the two, and it doesn't seem to be as important to me as all the other personality aspects.

Definition of sensing:
a. An intuitive or acquired perception or ability to estimate: a sense of diplomatic timing.
b. A capacity to appreciate or understand: a keen sense of humor.
c. A vague feeling or presentiment: a sense of impending doom.
d. Recognition or perception either through the senses or through the intellect; consciousness: has no sense of shame.

Definition of intuition:
1.
a. The act or faculty of knowing or sensing without the use of rational processes; immediate cognition. See Synonyms at reason.
b. Knowledge gained by the use of this faculty; a perceptive insight.
2. A sense of something not evident or deducible; an impression.

Wait what?

 

[MatthewSawyer]

intuition = instinct?

from an MBTI sense, have you read:

http://www.intpforum.com/showthread.php?t=6582

?

it is a good reference.

i think you inevitably end up needing to make the distincting between introverted/extroverted sensing/intuition. I think the real distinction is what you do with the stimulae from the outside world.

 

[InvisibleJim]

Perception:

Intuition is irrationally reviewing for relations between ideas and memories of ideas.
Sensing is irrationally reviewing current sensory information as is or against the memory of sensation.

Judgement:

Thinking is rationally analysing the situation via. logical deduction.
Feeling is rationally analysing the instinctual vibe of a situation.

 

[Cognisant]

In the metaphorical MBTI robot adjusting the settings to "Sensor" increases the frame-rate experienced by the robot's AI, which decreases the amount of processing power spent on each individual frame and abstract thought processes, while adjusting the settings to "iNtuitive" does the opposite.

In effect Sensors are more in touch with reality, using fast/simple processing, while iNtuitives are more detached, using slower/deeper processing.

 

[Dimensional Transition]

I think I get it now. Especially that thread helped a lot. Thanks!

 

[Cogwulf]

I'm INTP, but N is my weakest preference. When I first became interested in the MBTI, I wasn't sure whether I was INTP or ISTP, I decided I was INTP, but for the wrong reasons. I had decided I was N but with a strongly developed S. Trying to think in terms of N or S can just lead to confusion.
When I delved deeper into understanding the individual functions, I decided I'm just a strong user of Si. The strong Si is enough to push the test towards telling me I'm ISTP, but the real difference between ISTP and INTP is the appearance of Se, which is almost alien to me.
The MBTI suggests that S and N are opposites, but they're not, they're complimentary, it is the way they are used that creates the differences between types.

 

[ked]

Sensoric is about seeing, hearing, sensing what's happening outside (Se) or what's happening inside (Si; the body). INtuitive is not about intuition but about memory. iNtuitive dominants live dominantly in the memory, where the Se-type is Ne-type, it being the same seeing as before but in the memory. Si becomes Ni when turned towards memory, that in this case is not any more visual (outer seeing) than Si is seeing outside, but just N-memory, living there like a dreamer, a non-visual dreamer.