the grouping of words associated with each approach are not entirely synonymous, but the concepts are the point here, not the terminology.
Oh I get it, you're teaching me about MBTI. Why did I even both researching and figuring for the last 2 years?
S vs. N is a spectrum of favored approach, looking at a collection of new details <-> considering the implications of the summarized whole by comparing it to past pattern.
No, sorry it's not that simple. Ne strings together all or many of the sensations that Se brings in. It might not remember each detail, but it
does notice them at the start. That's because instead of only remembering the details so they can be analyzed, by feeling or thinking, it has another step. There's the connection between them, and if there are enough, then it turns into a pattern, and Ne can become aware of what might happen. It's not as if the user of Ne can't notice details, they're just not interested in laboring over them. It's got absolutely nothing to do with approach. In fact, judgement is what determines the favored approach. Usually there's a divide between thinking and feeling, but you could also draw a line between the two attitudes of either.
ironically, it is people who want to look at MBTI letters alone and say "Ns are more intelligent than Ss" who are being simplistic here...
... and... you think that's what I'm doing?
a type such as ISTP contains an Ni tertiary function that could easily be stronger than, say, an INTP's Ne secondary.
That's not proven. It's my understanding that the four letter type code only indicates which two functions a person prefers at the front, and all the others swim in a nebula. I'm staunchly opposed to the notion of a rigid function order.
nearly everyone uses both senses and intuition, and between any given XSXX vs XNXX, you are simply swapping the Nx and Sx functions... not removing them, and certainly not altering the quantitative effectiveness of the function.
Well we certainly don't disagree here.
Ineffective intuition is where we get people like Michael Scott from the office. NF symbology taken to an absurd tier makes him a true dumbass. Just like perhaps NT systematizing that tries to trump reality, with the thinking that if they can't analyze it, it must not exist.