No Specific Examples of Cognitive Functions?
Here is an except from something I am writing called, "Hierarchical Temperament Theory" which I may or may not post. It's meant to be foundational and accurate, but not very practical.
There are no examples. Examples can illustrate but you can't use them to deduce.
"Behavior can be divided up in various ways. -(Analysis is a subset of one of the six ways of understanding.)- Let's look at some, lifting generously from MBTI theory. I will use analysis and provide dichotomies.
1. self related vs outside world related. (i vs e)*
This assumes there is a dividing line between where the self ends and outside the self begins. What the self experiences internally is quite different from what one believes the outside world is like. (edit)
* One cannot focus on two things at once so one excludes the other.
2. reasoning vs evaluating. (T vs F)**
Reasoning refers to where we place things; evaluating to whether we want to place them.
** We can't place things and evaluate them at the same time. If we place things, it's too late to evaluate them. If we value something, we've already placed them.
3. generalizing vs specifying. (N vs S)***
Generalizing refers to combining abstractions from things; specifying to directly relating to things.
*** Can't be done simultaneously. Specifying refers to particulars; generalizing to multiples of particulars.
4. scanning/openness vs choosing/closure. (P vs J)****
Scanning refers to moving freely among things without qualification; choosing to selecting one thing excluding others.
**** Scanning means not stopping to choose; choosing means stopping.
There are any number of other dichotomies for behaving but more than 2x2x2x2 = 16 is unwieldy. One through four hopefully correspond highly to the sixteen MBTI temperaments."
