I'll give this a try. I'm guessing here...
1 - Sorts/distinctions/categories and classes/genres/types
2 - Sets/arrays/varieties and clusters/bunches/stacks
I can't tell the exact difference between sets/arrays/varieties and classes/genres/types. S/D/C & C/B/S seem to overlap. S/D/C & C/G/T seem to overlap even more, both with each other and with S/A/V. This is all very confusing.
SPs talk about sorts of things such as various wines because they're the artists of society and the masters of variety and spotting opportunities. Thus they can pull together the strengths of various items, using them interchangeably like a ninja warrior twirling nunchucks one second and throwing chinese stars the next.
What's the difference in getting excited about the varieties of wine and the classes or categories of it? At first glance I'm thinking it's the same concept and all an issue of semantics. But I don't mean to sound like a jerk or anything. I really want to learn this.
I *need* diversity and variety in where I live, what I eat/drink, what I listen to, and where I go. But it can be annoying when I'm working with something and it's all meshed together. I get a lot more pleasure out of breaking it down into categories where everything fits seamlessly, and going back in the end to make a new set of categories that shows how all categories are interrelated.
NTs talk about sorts of things because they take great pains to distinguish one type of thing from another so as to not get them confused. Their distinctions can get deeper and deeper, creating more efficiency and thereby evoking accusations of splitting hairs.
This sounds like me again. But I'm not a Rational by any means and can hardly relate to them at all. One of the most annoying side-effects is that when I hear an error in conversation (like a mispronunciation, misuse of vocabulary or grammatical error), I have to consciously try to ignore it. I have gotten into mini-discussions in the middle of a conversation about the extent to which a word is synonymous to another and how best to use inflection. I do it indiscriminately, with teachers and parents as often as with friends and little kids. I have to control it now since it annoys so many people (those who enjoy it are too few!).
haha. I do, too. I think it more or less depends on the way you approach the groupings. An SP is more likely to point out the differences between all the doggies, whereas an SJ will more likely say, "It's just another dog, big deal." lol.
The most fun I ever had with dogs was learning about all of the different breeds and their general traits, what distinguishes a breed from one group but links them to another. My SJ mother thinks it's anal-retentive and says something just like that: "A dog is a dog".