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[Jungian Cognitive Functions] Te vs Ti

Te vs Ti, which is better


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yenom

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Here is your chance to prove which one is better.
Justify your reasons and your explanation of how each function works.
 

VagrantFarce

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uh-oh!

From a Te standpoint, Te wins because it would just evaluate Ti's weakpoint and exploit it. Or maybe throw a collar on it and put it to work.

From a Ti standpoint, Ti wins because it would analyze it's mechanics and then just walk away, all smug and shit.

oh god
 

AphroditeGoneAwry

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Ti thinks efficiently, uses words wisely, gets real things done. Makes objects bend to its will, makes things work, and employs the best method. Keeps to itself. Likes action, likes working, likes several irons in the fire.......all of which make it truly hot. ;)




Te is multitasky and busy, informed, and all over. Delving, searching, seeking in its unquenchable quest for knowledge and expertise. Can be presumptuous and pompous in its surity.
 

visaisahero

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Accelerate or Brake, which is the better pedal?

How can you compare them out of context? Both of them are beneficial in different ways.
 

visaisahero

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or to put it differently, why would you develop one or the other when obviously the best thing you can do is to develop them both?
 

Mad Hatter

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How can you compare them out of context?

IA.
From a Ti perspective: "Better" needs a clearer definition. From a Te perspective: Without a clearer definition, my time feels like it's being wasted ;) As it stands, it is far too general.
If "better" means "more useful", I might side with Te because use implies action and action is usually outwardly directed.
 

visaisahero

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If "better" means "more useful", I might side with Te because use implies action and action is usually outwardly directed.

When you say "more useful": To who? In what context? To achieve what ends?

There is no sense or benefit in pushing at a "pull" door, for instance.
 

fill

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I vote "black people."
 

miss fortune

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oh... totally voting for Ti...

I have more of it, which obviously proves that its superior! :tongue:
 

Mad Hatter

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When you say "more useful": To who? In what context? To achieve what ends?

There is no sense or benefit in pushing at a "pull" door, for instance.

You're right; it's basically replacing one vague term with another one.

Te is "useful" in the sense that it tries to work efficiently within a given system, or "play the system" if you will, whereas Ti is probably more concerned with establishing an efficient system in the first place.
Efficient in the sense of getting things done with minimal effort (in the most basic, general sense). Of course Te can also be concerned with establishing an efficient system, but only as a means to an end.

E.g.: Ti: That door is poorly constructed, I could make a better one. Te: I pull at the knob instead of sucking at the door with my mouth and moving backwards to open it because using the knob is the easiest way to open a door. Or something like that.

Anyway, this thread is still vague. I'd rather debate within given definitions of Ti/Te instead of establishing and discussing definitions/explanations of functions and their usefulness (or "betterness") by the posters themselves.
 

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Ti is real intelligence, Te is just wanna be smart
 

Mad Hatter

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Ti is real intelligence, Te is just wanna be smart

INTP convention taking place on top of a muffin:
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Kalach

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Taken in isolation and both functions given some seed information, Ti should win because Te will lack depth and make truth value mistakes all over the place.

If both functions are allowed to operate with some partner perceiving function... I dunno, maybe Ti still by virtue of depth.


In which case, such a pity Ti doesn't get to move beyond immediate connections.





We need an ENTP poll: dividing or conquering, which part of the process is better?
 

fill

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We need an ENTP poll: dividing or conquering, which part of the process is better?

Neither. I prefer the gloating part afterwords. :D
 

sculpting

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without both working together you are screwed and wont get a damn thing done.
 
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