I've done some tests and my Fi and Ti can be both the highest score on them and depending on the test each one has a 50/50 chance of winning over the other.
I am pretty certain I'm an Fi user and I was just wondering if I could appear to be a Ti user If I put value in it.
Could I develop Ti even though it is completely opposed to my main function?
Would it be imperfect logic?
Would I be demonstrating Te or Ni instead of Ti when I'm logically deducing something?
Thank you for reading. 🙏
After studying and having my insights, I believe that the main difference between Te/Ti and Fe/Fi is:
• Fe/Fi functions cognize objects as having personalized, living, biotic qualities
• Te/Ti functions cognize objects as having depersonalized, mechanic, abiotic qualities
For me, that main difference between T and F leads to all the other characteristics we have seen everywhere here. Like for example Fe/Fi valuing morals or ethics involving deeply caring about people lives (or even animal lives) for example, while Te/Ti valuing purely what makes logical sense, "what works".
The main difference relies on about how our brains prefer to processes informations attributing characteristic to these tiny little informations that reaches our brains.
• Personalized or Depersonalized?
• Biotic or Abiotic?
• Living or Mechanic?
These redefinitions by CT are incredible because makes a lot of sense.
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Now the interesting thing: Te dom users (just to name one example) can think that a person is being moral or imoral, although their brain tend to depersonalized/impersonal the outer objects, they can believe in high standards of morality or imorality. Te dom users can think one thing is good and another thing is bad. However, they will often reach these conclusions not by a process of personalization, but by depersonalization. They can purely look on how a system work for example.
Example:
Te dom user can say: "This guy is imoral because he hinders the system by cheating"
=> This ENTJ thinks that:
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(And I know he is enneagram 1 which helped him to behave like that, but it is also Te)
(amazing movie btw!)
So, as you can see above, the T CAN assign value to something, but that assignment process can be a purely depersonalized thinking process.
So yeah, the central point between F and T for me is, again, that Fe/Fi personalize informations and Te/Ti depersonalize informations. And of course each person has his own level of personalization or depersonalization of objects (we are never a FULL T or a FULL F). But that explains why we can see high Fe/Fi users looking at cute little TOYS and attributing living qualities to them. (Just one example)
To finish, I wanna post a quote where Carl Jung was describing Te dom pure users (Extraverted Thinking Type) on his book: "Psychological Types".
Jung clearly showed that purist Te dom users attribute values of "good and bad" and "moral and imoral" to certain objects and ideas, and they actually attribute very rigid, strongly, with "black-and-white" vision! Which I bet it will be surprising to a lot of people that sees Fi users as the ones who does that.
Extraverted Thinking 🛃)
"By this formula are good and evil measured, and beauty and ugliness determined. All is right that corresponds with this formula; all is wrong that contradicts it; and everything that is neutral to it is purely accidental. Because this formula seems to correspond with the meaning of the world, it also becomes a world-law whose realization must be achieved at all times and seasons, both individually and collectively. Just as the extraverted thinking type subordinates himself to his formula, so, for its own good, must his entourage also obey it, since the man who refuses to obey is wrong -- he is resisting the world-law, and is, therefore, unreasonable, immoral, and without a conscience. His moral code forbids him to tolerate exceptions; his ideal must, under all circumstances, be realized; for in his eyes it is the purest conceivable formulation of objective reality, and, therefore, must also be generally valid truth, quite indispensable for the salvation of man."
~ Carl Jung, Psychological Types
That's why I believe it is the main difference between Thinking and Feeling on their pure forms. However, everyone have it's own level of preference between them. (And that often cause conflicts 😂)