Silveresque
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...Or visa versa?
S types come to mind. N types I think would be more interested in learning the why behind things, which suggests explanation. S types are more interested in the how, which I guess comes closer to example. I could be wrong though.
I had discussion about example vs explanation with my wife yeasterday. I'm an ENTJ with a low chance, and I think that examples can pinpoint some ideas I have. Examples can illustrate princeples, if they are well chosen. It's only a possibility though. There's no general princeple that forces an example to be of any value. So, the value of example is what you make of it. The value of example is what you get of it.
In the end, examples are a tool for teaching.
The types that learn best from examples rather than explanations are all of the 'result' ones in socionics: ENFP, ENTJ, INTP, INFJ, ISTJ, ISFP, ESFJ, ESTP (an explanation). Charles Darwin, for example, an ISTJ (though he is commonly typed as INTJ) derived his theory of evolution by watching many examples of it happening in nature until the theory dawned upon him.