compulsiverambler
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I'd class those as Si connections. They're concrete, and you're thinking of things that you've come to associate with each other through previous experience of them being found or mentioned in the same context.I'm still trying to figure this Ne-thing out... so, like, if I'm eating ice cream, and the ice cream starts to melt, and that makes me think of global warming and melting glaciers, and glaciers make me think of the North pole, and then I start thinking about Santa Claus, and the next words out of my mouth are "ever notice how all classic Christmas movies have greed as the basic theme?" would that make me Ne-dom or crazy?!
I think typical everyday Ne associations could be for example "Damn that summer sun, everybody loves and looks forward to it and then it melts our ice cream as if it's jealous of the attention we give it, like that naughty boy I just saw stomping on other children's sandcastles. He'd have managed to stomp on more of them if he'd acted nice and made them all relax around him first, like the comforting warm glow of the sunlight we bask in as it melts everything and sets cars alight and burns our skin and gives us cancer. And still we wish away the rest of every year until it comes, just as we fall for the pretty decor and dream-like imagery of Christmas every winter, only to end up fatter and poorer and more stressed out, before forgetting this and spending the rest of the year romanticising and longing for it again." The first words out of your mouth might be "No I don't want another ice cream, it'll probably disappoint me and I'll never get back the minutes spent standing in line waiting for it when I could have been swimming instead!" Just an example, I'm not that grumpy.
The fact that Sensors do it too doesn't mean it isn't iNtuition. I can make the kind of associations you make above as well. I don't know anyone who doesn't use all four perceiving functions. You can't navigate the world as a human without them. Personality theory addresses preference, not ability.