and you determine which cognitive tendencies those are by what choices they make, what they do & what they express.
i agree that we're looking for general predispositions, and you can't determine much of a person's general dispositions by a single events (you can determine a lot more if they share with you how they process those event after, but even then). what i was talking about though - and perhaps phrased poorly - was the generalizations of functions to the point where every behavioral predisposition can be associated with every type.
this actually has become a noticeable problem when you take the full spectrum of typology practiced here as a whole (which neither of them are meant for, but since we're using all of them...): MBTI, enenagram, tritype, instinctual variants.
does a predisposition tendency to act socially towards being liked come from someone being SO-dom or are they SX-dom FJs? is it dominant enough to call them e3/e2s? is someone persistent & reliable with their work practices an STJ keeping to the plan? an SP-dom afraid of loosing their grounding? maybe it's an FJ seeking what is expected of them at home (which you don't see at all)? but wait, we forgot shadow functions... maybe it's a really depressed ESxP? or maybe it has nothing to do with it because its a behavior and we can't possibly describe what would go through someone's head and motivate them and enable them behind a behavior... maybe their doing it out of compassion to a mouse that is threatened by aliens waiting to pull the trigger the moment they would slack off change plans or be spontaneous...
we don't even need to look that far - take @
greenfairy - some think she's an NTP because she tends to break the information down and work along lines of synthetic thinking, others say she has to be an FP because what she view's as a Ti like analysis is often applied to the realm of metaphysics, spirituality & philosophy? because Ti can't possibly work such soft and esoteric paradigms or have eclectic beliefs ... others say those tendencies are the realm of Ni because apparently NJs are mystics so if your a mystic you have to be an NJ.... or... you'd get be caught & fired by the council of NJs.. or something.... but wait, did we forget loops? we have to bring up loops - so Ni Ti.. she's an ISTP/INFJ! let us embrace the old tradition and say she's an unhealthy STP because she doesn't follow into our paradigms and that means she's possessed by something unnatural and is obviously sick and needs us to cure her with god damn leeches in her face and ritualistically dancing the makarena while giving her therapy and meds to cure her evil unnatural loop...btw greenfairy did you do shopping this week? did you have a list in your head of what you needed? sorry, we can't have TPs/FJs having such well thought out plans in advance, if you did you must have Te there...
you see my point on how ridicules this can get?