b-but.. if one cannot succinctly describe something in words, isn't it better not to attempt to describe it, therefore risking misunderstanding by one's audience? >.>
When it helps, yes. However, if one is building one's ideas on certain concepts that one can't even put into words, one is trying to build a theory on something one may not even realise doesn't always apply.
Let's see if I can give a very general synopsis of Ne vs Ni.. The difference between Ne/Si and Se/Ni can be subtle, but it is there. The thought processes are very different between them; while Ne takes information directly from the environment and compares it with the memories stored by Si,
Most times I've seen people refer to Ne, it's as "brainstorming".
Ni has kind of a preconceived framework that takes information gathered by Se, compares it, and expands the framework based on the new findings. Where as Ne can be seemingly spontaneous in its idea generation, Ni would tend to take preconceived notions and extrapolate from what it already knows. Therefore, Ni performs the same task as Si, maintaining one's worldview/preconceived notions.
Kind of. Ni-doms tend to say that they CONSTRUCT worldviews, and often. Doing all that work all over again takes a lot of time. So often, it's built on some previously constructed worldviews.
Ne and Se are also similar in that they are both perception functions, they handle the mental interpretation of sensory input.
Ni & Si are also perception functions.
From what I know, the perceptive experience of Ne/Si and Se/Ni users is pretty different. While Ne tends to perceive the world in an abstract sense, that is, with a dreamlike impression of things, Se experiences it in a very concrete way.
True. But if you notice carefully, Se-users, which is SPs, tend to be good at ball games. Ball games require constant error corrections to one's initial estimate, focussing in narrower and narrower on one's target. Usually, SPs seem to be unaware that they are doing this. This kind of constant adjustment, is reminiscent of how Ni-doms tend to describe how they achieve a goal. However, SPs seem to be oblivious to it, while Ni-doms seem to know that it happens.
Here is a good example of the difference between the two types: I'm TiNe, my coworker is TiSe. His work is a lot cleaner and done a lot faster than mine. A lot of this is due to the fact that my Ne prompts me to change directions in my workflow several times throughout a project. My coworker has a well defined directional workflow that he always follows. His Ni framework has parameters for each situation built into it, and if something needs to be adapted to, he takes what he already knows and extrapolates it until his ideology covers the situation at hand. If I am faced with a new kind of situation, my Ne generates a scattering of all kinds of ideas, and then my Ti has to sort through them to figure out which ones are relevant.
I'm TiNe. A friend is TiSe. My house is a lot cleaner than his. When it comes to dealing with things, he tends to deal with things he knows, by sticking to what he knows. Overall, when he bothers, he gets things done on time. I usually get so lost in the possibilities, that I take much longer to do things. But when it comes to something he doesn't know, he balks, while I tend to dive in, and give it a go anyway.
