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What was the context of that statement?
IRL, Ni is always paired with Fe or Te, so it's going to manifest with a closure pattern... you'll be seeing it expressed through one or the other, typically.
Oops, I meant Jenaphor. I was rushing.
The Ni in INTJ is open-ended and perceptive. A closed form of perception is not perception. You counter-argue that the plot of Dune comes to a conclusion. Well yes, otherwise it wouldn't be a novel, although you must see that many elements to the story are open-ended. For example, Paul walking off blindly into the desert leaves an opening. The many times when there was no corpus delicti (as with Paul and Jessica twice in Dune, and then Leto in Children of Dune) leaves an opening.
But that's not the point anyway, which is that evolution is an open-ended process. The ultimate goal of the Golden Path is to obviate mankind's ultimate stagnation, devolution, and then extinction, for which there can be no conclusion because the Golden Path is eternal.
I guess, see what Jennifer said, INTJ expression is very directed, with Ni as part of the process.
And as far as all novels having a conclusion, well, that's a debatable point. So far I've noticed that a lot of the open endedness that I've encountered so far seems to exist to highlight the realities of possibilities not enacted.
I like how we all just restated the same thing as far as the Golden Path is concerned, but used different words. Or are we disagreeing? I can't tell.