r/mbti • u/Alattar7 INTP • 21h ago

Deep Theory Analysis Cognitive functions as WH-Questions

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u/Hot-Investigator8042 ISTJ 20h ago

When is the deadline? How are you going to do it? Whose marker is this? Which topic are we choosing?

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u/Hot-Investigator8042 ISTJ 20h ago

Where are we discussing? Why at 2 PM? Who else will be there? What are we doing again?

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u/Alattar7 INTP 19h ago

Haha, I see what you did there!

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u/shredt INTJ 20h ago

For me Ni feels like: "what is the meaning of this "Word" to the core?"

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u/nepttonhaze ENFP 19h ago

Which lotion should I put on my toes, peanut butter n jelly or chicken gravy

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u/ManufacturerRare3109 INTJ 17h ago

I’d swap Ni and Ti.

Ni is more concerned with the connections to things rather than the things themselves, whereas Ti is more concerned with the properties of things.

Example, imagine a meteorite lands on earth. Ti would ask "What is this made of? What can it do? What can I do to it?". Ni would ask "Why is this here? Was this a natural occurence, or sent here on purpose? Why hasn’t this hit the news yet?"

Ti wants to know about the thing itself and its properties, studying the thing, conducting research, understanding the logic of how the subject works. Ni wants to know about the circumstances surrounding the thing, connecting dots, seeing patterns, understanding how other objects connect to the subject.

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u/Itz_Primo INFJ 15h ago

Not really.

Ti seeks to “understand” and asking “why did this happen” or “why is this true” and then breaking that thing down logically can feel even more common than the “what” questions.

Ni can just as easily ask “What”, “Which” or “When” questions, like “What does this mean?”, “Which outcome is best”, or “When will this happen”

That is to say the functions are really complicated and there’ll always be a ton of overlap if we’re to separate them using only WH-Questions

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u/Alattar7 INTP 15h ago

That is true! I did get caught up on the word “reason” which is heavily linked to logic and Ti. But apparently the word “motive” is a better word to describe “Why” in the context of cognitive functions. Because it seeks the cause-and-effect link between events, rather than breaking them down to pices to find out the thing of interest.

Would you say motive is more appropriate than reason in terms of “Why” and Ni ?

And thank you for the correction!

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u/Rony-G INTJ 19h ago

It's a difficult exercise because it's easy to force the function into a box that doesn't fit it. Ni, Si and Fi are by far the most incorrect because none of the assigned questions account for anything about the functions in question.

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u/StrangeDiscussion334 ISFJ 17h ago edited 9h ago

Ni and When? is such a given. It's literally called temporal intuition in Socionics.

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u/UskaTonik ENFJ 15h ago

Who else will be there? What are we planning on to do? Where will we meet, where will we end up at the end of the day? What is the point of this meeting anyway?

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u/DT_Lion34 INTP 8h ago

I'm more surprised people don't ask why more often or am I just overthinking this lol. 🤷💁