Originally Posted by
Phaedrus
The criteria for disinguishing intertype relations, for example, were not invented before but after Augusta had identified the types in the first place. First the types, then the intertype relations.
Rubbish. She did not identify the types and then noticed, "hmm, these people seem to interact differently".
She started seeing the types due to the difference in intertype relationships. She noticed that two couples of apparently very similar people could have extremely different relationships, so she deduced that at least two of those people were very similar superficially but very different internally, which she later called quasi-identicals.
Only because she noticed the difference between duality and conflict did she start thinking about types at all. And that's why
her types -
Socionics types - were built around relationships, and can't exist without them.
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