SolitaryWalker
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- MBTI Type
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Bluewing, you are committing the somewhat converse error of seeing the MBTI not as a somewhat imperfect, but useful model for understanding reality, but as something that is complete in itself..
Explain your reasoning to support this conclusion.
Then you analyse certain type functions, detatched from the human context which give them their significance, to their ultimate logical conclusions. The conclusions, however, are now so decontextualised that they bear little - I will not say no, as there is a certain amount of truth in there, but little relationship to the way in which people actually operate..
Explain your reasoning to support this conclusions.
You appear to be basing your whole chain of reasoning on an unacknowledged subjective belief of your own: that NF's are poor at abstract reasoning and incapable of being objective (In bold). This would only be correct if the functions a person had access to correlated strictly to the major processes expressed in their type, and was in practice limited to those..
It is true that we access all of our functions, but we are naturally more talented at the use of some than at the use of others. We tend to be poor at the use of the functions that we are not talented at.
This is simply not the case; any one person has access to the full range of cognitive functions possible, as described by MBTI. ..
Thats right, we all use all functions, though we tend not to use all functions competently.
In MBTI terms it is an indicator of maturity in an individual when they have developed their inferior functions to the degree where they are able to use them appropriately, according to circumstance; though their cognitive preference - the trait which the MBTI classifies, may indeed remain as it is. ..
Most of us are capable of using our inferior function with competence by maturity, though not consistently. The use of our inferior function is analogous to our attempt to pursue activities that require us to cultivate skills that we have least natural talent towards.
You have typed yourself as INTP - I can believe that, as a core weakness of the natural INTP process is often in data collection, where insufficient focus on obtaining accurate information through perceptive Ni may result in formulating a theory that though logically sound in itself, is lacking in external applicability through omission of key data..
Generally this is true, but not relevant to this discussion. When you read an author you regard their claims as either true or false based on the content of their claims themselves and not their biography. Their type is part of their biography, biography is irrelevant.
You are free to read more of my stuff on typology here.
Principles of Typology
I would suggest going back to the drawing board on this one rather than continuing trying to view everything through the distorting prism of MBTI type ALONE.
What is everything?