Originally Posted by
tcaudilllg
is the perception of sequence. "This happened, then this happened, then this happened", etc. Ever heard an INTp talk? If they are talkative at all, they will recount everything they did today, yesterday, and maybe even last week. It's like they can see a symbol, and trace back through all the moments they dealt with it at super speed. Eventually (as in, something close to an instant) they remember the formula they associated the system with. That's why math is full of seemingly meaningless symbols: math is made for INTps.
I know that this has been discussed before, but I don't remember if any clear consensus was reached or not. There is, however, something slightly problematic with how you describe INTps here. I don't identify with talking like that, describing what I have done in that way. I am often not sure
when something happened. Was it last week? Or last month? Or maybe even last year? From an INTp's perspective it would be at least as correct, probably more, to say that
is the perception of time as, in a sense, a "timeless" perspective. It doesn't matter what happened before or after what, since INTps and INFps can traverse the time axis with ease. Any event can be focused on at any point in time, and the exact order in which the events actually happened are irrelevant and might even be forgotten. We don't have to go through the whole sequence to get access to an event in time.
In my experience INTjs are more prone to describe things in a chronological perspective. It seems as though they have to, or at least prefer to, start with the assumptions, the axioms, and then work their way through to the conclusion without skipping any steps on the way. I prefer to start with the conclusion, the overall "picture" or "theme", and then, if necessary, focus on how that conclusion was reached. But it is almost necessary for me to get an overall picture before I start with the premises, whereas the INTjs often start at the befinning (of what seems like a "sequence").