(continues the post above but explores many other areas)
Fe-Base are very not like that - as described in the supposed Ej manner of obtaining confirmation. Their pursuits (of the Fe/j types) are not based on hard facts (including measurements); when not counting in the motivational mobilisation this attitude triggers in themselves and others, their vision is factually baseless (hence why sometimes utopian). The object of Fe/j is always the bird in the bush, the aim, the intent, or the feeling about the potential state of things. Always in the future or behind the scenes, just never what just is and was seen - this is simply the Fe IA side of things. I repeat, it is not that Fe as Information Aspect "deals" with these things, it *is* this side of things. Take the word "aspect" from "Information Aspects" literally, it is not merely a label. Only thought as a function - and a type - we can think of how this side of things is handled by the psyche, both in importance and interest.
Sorry for jumping from Ej and Fe-Base to Fe/Te in general, but I think the distinction is actually helpful here. To continue, imagine the application of both Te and Fe to an encounter with a shark:
- Fe, before: "that shark will attack". Merely the action of advancing towards or encircling the human means an attack. Subjective, true, as all the Internal IEs, but this anticipation is what Fe in action is. Te is unapplicable here because no such thing occurred (Fe: "not yet"). After (*if* the attack occurred): Fe is unapplicable on the attack itself.
- Te, before: unapplicable. All one can tell is the circumstances: that the shark is there, the distance between the two, etc - but there is no such thing as an attack. After: "the attack occurred", it becomes a fact.
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We should not conclude three things from the above, possible confusions that come to my mind: (1) that Te valuing would ignore the possibility of an attack, (2) that Fe is applied solel to anticipate future events, and (3) that Ne (Bodies + Internal) would also anticipate such event:
1. Te valuing is inherently Fi valuing. Like I stated in a post above, there is a cultural (common knowledge) relationship between the shark and the man, based in turn on facts, actual past events. "Sharks = man attackers" - Fields, Internal and also Static because it is a relationship - the rule is formal but accounted for. This does not mean that shark "is/was about to attack", there is logically no such thing as a Serious "is/was about" by the very understood notions of Te and Fe, in my view. These divergent views on prevention generate lots of misunderstanding between Merry and Serious personalities (people or factions), for example in the police overreaction matters. It is a philosophical question whether someone can be legitimate in evaluating the consequences of a given situation. Talking of police: in a supposed absence of Fe, preventive force against an agent that was not previously qualified (e.g. "a murderer") could never be justified: it is impossible to prove that someone was about to commit a crime when it was neutralized before the said event could take place.
2. Like already exemplified above at point (1), Fe can be used to interpret the past, what was behind certain events. Same with Te and future, wait and see or intentions to test and measure - come up with facts about something. However, I believe these behaviors are given in pairing with their Fields block members (Ip).
3. Ne and Se, although Bodies and therefore empirical, they are Static, so they would not deal with any course of actions. A Pe cognition in this case would be rather on the lines of whether that shark is capable of damaging its target or something. And that is not totally correct, Irrational functions are by nature not to draw any judgment, they being either Fields+Dynamic [Ip] (the general way things go, in opposition to the B+D's [Ej] what is actually going on), or Bodies+Static (the potential actual things have, in opposition to the general qualities of different categories). Therefore, to formulate a "Pe proposition", it would be of the form "since this is capable of that ...". A Static judgment - to tell what is the case in respect to properties and relations - can only be Fields, and therefore general (Fi, Ti).
Well, life is not all about dangers, sharks and violence, just examples of critical situations seem more eloquent.![]()


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