Reinin dichotomies

[ae1905]

Hi. I've been looking at socionics theory for a few days and I'm perplexed by the labels on the Reinin dichotomies. The dichotomy made up of NT, for example, is called "aristocratic-democratic" and consists of NTs and SFs (democratic) and NFs and STs (aristocratic). Why is NT democratic? ENTj, for example, is stereotypically focused on getting groups of people to do his bidding, and isn't particularly concerned about them as individuals. INFjs, otoh, see themselves are individuals and relate to others on this basis.

And NT is an example of a dichotomy formed by combining two basic dichotomies. What about the dichotomies made up of three basic dichotomies, like ENT, which is labelled "positivistic-negativistic"? How does the idea of "positivistic" come out of the sociotypes in this group? What exactly do ENTX, INFX, ESFX, and ISTX have in common that can be called "positivistic"? Ditto for INTX, ENFX, ISFX, and ESTX who are called "negativistic"? In what way are these eight sociotypes "negativistic"? Where in their IMs or model functions does this come from?