No. You are simply wrong. Dichotomies have never been secondary in Socionics. They are just as important as functions. Functions and the four dichotomies can never ever be in conflict. If you know your type according to the four dichotomies, you also know for sure which functions your type is defined by. And if you know your functions, you automatically know your type according to the four dichotomies. I repeat, they can never ever contradict each other.Originally Posted by Slacker Mom
Socionics is not based on the functions in the first place. It is based on Jung's eight types. Based on Jung's types, Augusta discovered the intertype relations. The functions explain the intertype relations and the 16 types -- but they are certainly not the primary source of information on the nature of the types. We know the types through observations of people's behaviour independently of any theoretical model on the functions.