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On math and INTJs:
When we talk about math (algebra especially), we talk about symbols. A mathematical equation describes how quantities interact with each other. Quantities, not "things".
INTJs live in the world of "things": things imagined, things real and imaginable. We always have definite labels for our things. Even when we describe "ducks" we have in our heads the image of a duck we have seen, recalled from memory, front and center. (if only for a fraction of a second) INTJs cannot accept the concept of something existing without some concept of definite form connotated to it. It's absurd. Likewise, we have a less than enjoyable precept of the idea of blindly working with numbers to the end of working with numbers in themselves. ("blindly" as we as INTJs see it, of course) There MUST be a point.
So can I believe an INTJ teaching calculus? Yes, I can. I can even believe them teaching algebra. But there is a difference in educating people for a particular end, and geniuinely believing that that entire world must be "proved". To the INTJ, truth is self-evident.
Those who use math not at as a means to an end, but for the purpose of being certain in itself, are not INTJs.
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