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Now that would take using your Se or Ne function. Clearly, unlike Ni (which is the only cognitive function not needing external stimulus to ignite it's process)Ti and the other introverted cognitive functions must have some objective focus to kick in gear. For Si, it's recalling something instigates it to recall a past smell, experience or something in the past, for Ti to jump start analysis and for Fi something to jump start value based decisions. I am not too sure about the latter, but INFPs can maybe help on that one.Is it perhaps that you have nothing to categorize or clarify unless you gathered it from an external source, though?
I see your point, and I agree with what you are saying. However, once the external stimulus is in place, Ti can live on it's own, in lieu of additional stimulus. For example, once basic principles are understood, Ti can kick in to determine something meets the basic requirements. It does not need Ne or Se to do this. However, to modify or change the basic principles in place, Ne and/or Se needs to come back into play to redirect Ti.That is the thing: Perhaps Ti is a process, just a cookbook describes processes... but unless you buy ingredients and inflict the process on them, the process is useless. It needs external items to act upon -- hence Ti must work in conjunction with SOME sort of externalized data-gathering function (and this is what I understood WC to be alluding to).
Not necessarily generating new thoughts, but analyzing existing thoughts per the basic principles known. Otherwise, I would say you are using Ni to create new thoughts or having to use Ne to consider possibilities.The only difference I can imagine at the moment is that once Ti DOES get some external data to process, it can then generate new thoughts on its own, and evaluate THEM in turn, because it is conceptual in nature (it "thinks about thinking")... so it's almost like a perpetual motion machine once it is primed.