Well, since this forum IS called MBTI central, that's the one I'll deal with here (Socionics already has a whole forum at the16types.info). I actually began studying the other systems because I couldn't differentiate the functions within MBTI, and I was wondering if any other systems had a way to do so, but now I'm more confused than ever.
How exactly am I supposed to know what my motivations for any given action are, because I could look at my entire past and interpret my reasons for doing everything I did from several different perspectives. I could do the same with everyone else's past.
Finally, how can I actually know that the functions described actually exist, and are not simply ideas proposed to describe the reasons for differences between people's behavior, but do not completely explain everything? If they don't explain anything, how can they even give us a picture of what we might be like?
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