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Anyway, I'm not sure what my point is. To me, Ne vs Ni is all just point of view. Sometimes I get a little irritated with Ni-Doms and their seeming inability to take in new approaches once they get stuck on a certain track. On the other hand, I certainly admire their sharpness on a given issue when it comes time to hone an idea down to its most perfect expression.
Just wanted to follow up on a point. The following is a partial cross-post from another thread.
[...]Example using Te and Ti:
Te operates on an ad-hoc basis, coming up with real-time organizational tools for real-time problems. Ti, on the other hand, takes problems down into an internal laboratory and works out tools for that problem as well as a number of related problems, i.e., it works out a personal logical system for handling a broad array of similar problems. In that respect, Ti works out a kind of internal "delta" of Te. That is, it tracks lots of related or similar Te possibilities and works out an internal, personalized Ti system for handling them.
Extending that example to Fe and Fi:
Similarly, Fe works on an ad-hoc basis out in the world with emotional and social tools. By comparison, Fi takes such things down into an internal laboratory and works out a larger personalized system for handling such problems. As in the previous example, Fi works out a kind of internal "delta" of Fe.[...]
I think the same principle applies to Ne and Ni: Ne is ad hoc and operates out in the world; whereas Ni takes things down into an internal laboratory and tries to extract the principles that motivate or connect together related issues or events in the outer world.
In each case, the extroverted function out of each introverted/extroverted function pair deals with real-world events, whereas the introverted function tries to fabricate a system by working out the "delta" of real-world events and trying to extract the principle behind the events.
That would seem to make the introverted version of each function pair more far-sighted and "deeper." And there is some truth to that. But at the same time, the introverted version of each function pair also tends to demonstrate more tunnel vision. The introverted version is operating at a remove from actual events and issues (i.e., in dealing with the principle rather than the event or issue itself); and the habit of grasping at a principle may cause the introverted function to disregard real-world issues and events that don't fit the principle neatly or contradict the principle outright. Alternatively, the principle that is derived may simply be misguided: The introverted function may falsely derive a principle or connection between events that simply doesn't exist in real life.
I know that my own Fi-Dom is prone to these issues; hence I tend to regard Fe as a more "real-time" and useful function when dealing with real-world issues. And I expect the introverted versions of other functions-pairs (both perceiving and judging) would have these same problems.
Of course, both the introverted and extroverted versions of each function pair have an important role to play. It's the interplay between the practical (extroverted) and the theoretical (introverted). As I said elsewhere, Ne is about innovation; Ni is about optimization. Both are needed.
At the same time it's important to keep in mind that both the introverted and extroverted versions of each function pair can be rather one-sided and limited, each in their own way; which makes it all the more important to develop strongly at least one's top two functions as a balance to each other, rather than depending solely on one's Dominant function.
YMMV