Originally Posted by
Whoobie77
Nassim is not Ti. He's Te.
From the postscript of The Bed of Procrustes:
"We are more likely to try to squeeze a phenomenon into the Procrustean bed of a crisp and known category (amputating the unknown), rather than suspend categorization, and make it tangible...Our mental architecture is at an increased mismatch with the world in which we live..."
He's basically anti-Ti. I'm not sure if it's ignoring or demonstrative, though. His mathematical appendix to the Incerto might suggest demonstrative, but I could see a case for Ignoring.
He can't distill his thoughts, cutting away the fat? Dude wrote a whole book of aphorisms. Can't get more distilled than that.
He's a Vortical-Synergetic thinker. This shit sounds like he wrote it himself:
"It operates on basis of testing, advancing to the goal through trial and error...Another advantage—faith in success and luck. Synergetics do not confuse temporary setbacks with error; they will undertake attempt after attempt until success ultimately comes to them."
That makes him either ENTj or ISTp. I don't think he's a rational, but I also don't think he's an ST. My inclination is to say Ni-ENTj, or that he's a got a healthy dose of irrationality.