Jaydee780
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Tertiary Ti has always been a factor that makes self-typing confusing for the INxJ. My method for distinguishing INTP from INFJ (with tertiary Ti) and INTJ is to point out that while the latter types use logic, it is never well-played. I'm not sitting here trying to insult you. It's just that when the INFJ or INTJ uses logic it is used as a pragmatically-wielded ploy for the purpose of defending a static point of view. These types often use logic for the appearance of being logical, but the result cannot stand up to logical analysis. For the INTP, logic is an end-in-itself and carries with it a god-like stature. For the INxJ, logic is a means to some external end, and its usage implies the existence of an ulterior, inner motive: a religion (even atheism) or some other rigid cognitive belief system held as a habit. An INxJ no doubt coined the saying "reason is the handmaiden of faith."
Yes! I agree with a lot of what you're saying. I've noticed that INTPs tend to use logic in a way that I tend not to. Although I consider myself to be a very logical individual, I really do not use it the same way INTPs do all the time.
However, I remember reading a description from somewhere (an unreliable source although did seem pretty accurate) about the way Ti-doms think by using a specific example of a bomb in a room with a bunch of people and how a Ti-dom would go about defusing it. Basically, they look at the bomb, see 2 buttons and a timer counting down, and proceed to press one of the button and sees that it makes the timer go down by 1. They deduce that they just made the bomb timber go down 1 second and proceed to press the other button to make the timer go up and continue to keep pressing that same button a bunch of times to give them enough time to get rid of the bomb. While the Ti-dom was figuring this all out, everyone in the room is panicking, crying and such but the Ti-dom manages to cut out all that BS and just work on the problem at hand.
I thought the way the Ti-dom handled this situation was very similar to the way I would have. I think the only difference might be that I may have had a harder time cutting out the BS as much as the Ti-dom but I think I would still be very good at that.