Yeah, kind of. But I believe what I'm describing is a natural tendency for INFJs in our Western environment. INFJs mostly grow up feeling isolated which tends towards developing the tertiary Ti. I could give a few possible reasons: it's internal, so doesn't require external stimulus for development; by disassociating the Fe, or hiding it in Ti, it suppresses the function that would cause more social anxiety and helps to "level out" emotions so to speak. I suffer from social anxiety as well. People seem to assume INFJs are "emotional" people when really that is far from the truth, in my opinion. They are more prone to appear schizoid precisely because they try to reign in more control over themselves.
These seems to imply some sort of innateness with the functions, like the Id-Ego-Superego of Freudian psychology. Would this theory be useful for making any predictions about a personality type - the gold standard of any theory - or is it just attempting to fit descriptions to people? I guess I'm trying to say that, if you told someone who has never met me that I'm an INFJ, would they be able to predict anything about my personality? Empirically speaking, if someones behavior fits a certain type, doesn't that by definition make them a certain type - unless typology predicts that there is some innate property of the brain that causes these personality types? I've found the literature on typology and neuroscience to be lacking, but the only connection there seems to be is a
different between sensors and intuitives (although nothing about whether it's Ne/Ni or Se/Si), and
between the usual definitions of intraverted/extroverted, not the MBTI definitions.
Regarding what I was saying about your tendency towards accuracy. If Ni was your dominant function, it is something that literally springs ideas out of no where. Unfortunately, for INFJs, we don't live in a time where we could just say "God has shown me the way!" and be taken seriously. We have to provide evidence for our claims, so Ti as an internal source of logic makes sense as something to be overmodulated. INFJs who over-develop their Ti often become mistrustful of their Ni to the point that they won't believe anything without strong Ti backing it up. I remember you saying before that you always reference because then at least what you are saying can be traced back to someone else and the ideas they have firmly established. That just made me think tertiary Ti, for some reason.
I like to reference because a lot of people around here tend to make baseless claims like they're facts; a reference shows that, even if I'm wrong, I'm at least not baseless
I don't mistrust my own ideas - most of what I post is in the philosophy section, which are ideas I have to defend using more ideas. However, I've always had ideas that are more deviating from a topic (my understanding of Ne, being more adaptive) than making intuitive leaps based on available information (my understanding of Ni, being more directive).
As for INTJ, I don't personally believe you are one. For me, there is a clear distinction between Te (the INTJ's auxillary) and Ti (INTP dominant, INFJ tertiary). Te is external logic, which perhaps could best be embodied in empiricism, or objective logic, for sake of practicality.
I would argue that Te is more fitting to me than Fe. My insistence on referencing, particularly with scientific topics, could be my deferring to external or empirical logic. Also, philosophically speaking, my notion that there must be general principles that govern existence as opposed to a solipsistic or idealism based reality is a deferring to external sources of logic/structure. Also, my compulsion to argue things to death (primarily God threads and evolution) would, from my understanding, be more indicative of Fi than Fe (having values or principles that I can't seem to let anyone else disagree with).
Ti is internal or subjective logic. I think you could even say Ti makes the rules and Te follows them to some extent. Your absurdism, and tendency to just well.. question everything, seems a lot more Ti than Te
And again, INTJ's tertiary is Fi, which often makes them doubt their means more on the basis of whether it is right or wrong (in the moral sense) rather than if it is true. Think Ozymandias from Watchmen, the final thing he asks Dr Manhattan is "did I do the right thing?" You seem more concerned with something's truth..
Sorry for making the thread too serious :P
I do not disagree with your assessment. What I do disagree with, I guess I could say, is typology as a whole. It's interesting, but it seems to be much more of a philosophical topic than a scientific one - people can argue the finer points of different personalities all day, and nobody could demonstrate that the other person is wrong. I could probably argue that I'm an ESFJ and make a compelling argument, particularly if it's valid to show why my
not acting like an ESFJ is an indication that I am just some sort of underdeveloped or repressed version of an ESFJ.
The personality types, scientifically speaking, would have to describe and make predictions about peoples behavior (eg, people of personality type X should have a higher tendency to make decision A when faced with situation R), or describe and make predictions about peoples brains (eg, people of personality type X should have neural activity in area B when given stimulus S).
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