Quote Originally Posted by Starfall View Post
I thought you'd say something exactly like that.

You have a point, but I'm sure you could understand why some would find a theoretical understanding of something to be more feasible than visual conceptions alone. It becomes way too abstract. What if one's personality is totally off balance to what you take them to be through VI? To me that kind of sounds like you're more or less going on gut feeling alone, and that's really not enough imo.
Well, the theory is just a background. It's sort of like where people use a black light to search through the dark and eventually certain things become more apparent. kind of. Like, ok, I know these premises, etc. etc. and these traits apply here. But you have to actually see it. Then you really know. And functions are very integral things, so their manifestations won't be perturbed by peoples' transient moods, acts, etc. (i.e. some ESTj machismo trying to act "Se"). Actually the black light thing makes sense. Because it's not as if you're blindly searching in the dark; you have the light as a sort of general support tool thing. But it's also sort of about letting the patterns evince themselves.