Originally Posted by
pianosinger
Okay...So, I'm thinking of a bell. Its conceptual properties are...that it rings? I mean, it's pretty much a given that a bell rings, right? But the rest of it...size, shape, color, pitch, tone...that's all malleable. You can have a hundred bells and each one different, but the one thing they will all have in common is that there is something inside them that, when hit on something else, will produce a ring. That would be Ne/Si?
Then how would one illustrate Se/Ni? That one's more difficult for me to understand...Using the bell illustration again, I'll see if I can figure it out...Say I have a particular bell. Its physical (static) properties are that it is small enough to fit in my hand, it's silver in color, and it has a push-button to make it ring; and when it rings, its tone is soft and high-pitched. Conceptually, though...what? Would Ni then seek to change the nature of the bell? To use it for some other purpose than it was intended? Like, maybe it could be used as a paperweight; or thrown at someone's head in self-defense, in which case it would become a weapon. But even if it's used for these purposes, that doesn't change the fact that it was a bell, and can be a bell again at a moment's notice (unless of course it's melted down and fashioned into something completely different, like a doorknob).