Not that I really feel like getting flack from her detractors for agreeing with what Maritsa said about anything, but:
IF I'm wrong, correct me.
I have an idea that Maritsa's response to empiricism seems to be a result of her personality, and your accepting it, of yours.
Empiricism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• Empiricism. Belief that experience is the source of knowledge. Opposite of rationalism.
[F. Bacon, Locke, Hume.]
• Rationalism. Belief that knowledge is attained through pure reason or innate ideas.
Opposite of empiricism. [Plato, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz.]
http://preposterousuniverse.com/teac...nts04/isms.pdf
Ni and Se are connected. Ni dominants take physical happenings and digest them.
"p. 222: '...draws our attention to immediate sensory phenomena. ... It prompts an interest in perception itself--the process of recognizing and interpreting what we take in.' "
Introverted Intuition
the INFj with lower valuing of
is less comfortable with the empiricist's mantra and would be more accepting of the Rational's? She propounds that one would have to empirically prove that empiricism works to maintain it's fidelity. We look at it and say it has worked ENOUGH. We can pick up on the trend, and we Ni or Se dominants see that as all we CAN go by because we don't have other perception. We have faith in our perceptive functions.
The Si dominant (in Maritsa's quadra) looks at reality as every changing and untrustworthy because that is not where their perceiving is located.
"'From an Introverted Sensate viewpoint, immediate conditions have no stable meaning. They're just an influx of data impinging on the senses. And our response to these impressions depends on our mood, our state of mind, our desires, our feelings. It's our commitments and priorities, the facts we hold inalienable, that give our circumstances enduring significance.'
As a dominant attitude:
p. 174: 'ISJs...don't believe for a minute that the universe is inherently rational. For these types, the outer world is a jumble of ever-changing perceptual experiences, dictating ever-changing behavioral responses. What ISJs maintain, and maintain unconditionally, is their priorities, which stabilize perceptual reality and give it consistent meaning.' "
Introverted Sensation
The two views have since merged in philosophical circles.
That was said awkwardly.