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I just can't tell if I agree with the root of your conception... I know what you're saying but I feel the notion it's stemming from may be several shades off from my own notion about it (although the mechanism described, I take no issue with, at least I don't think). It's perhaps partially because it sounds like a logical process the way you put it, but since you're trying to describe the inner workings of the process in a logical way I can see why it may have that feel. But still something is off. I also disagree with your sense of authority on the matter, knowing what others are "rightly" and "wrongly" attributing to what.
I guess one difference is that generally with intuitives I see things as more just occurring to them. At the time of the occurrence they may be able to pull up several examples from the past as justification for their strong feeling it's just happening all over again, but that generally they may not be aware of or able to put in a concrete fashion how all of their occurrences are generally arrived at. They may be able to call up abstract symbols from their minds and how something playing out reminds them of it and so it comes up as a warning, but they may not be able to say where it's coming from exactly. Their ability to clearly articulate their processes may come and go, both because they can't find the words and because there are too many processes and ideas about them. They can appear to wisely know things out of nowhere and the experiences they collect may be simply processed in a more abstract form where the details fall out, but the abstract meaning is retained and added to the "soup." (I would say Ne is far better at being concrete about this than Ni). But mainly I see intuition as relying heavily on its insights and imagination (which although Ne tends to put this far more concretely exposing the symbols for what they are, Ni is very inwardly focused and abstract about it often).
As an example with someone I know who I believe is ESI (although I've considered LSI from time to time, but am every time thwarted by her shit Ti) tends to note certain trends (although they are limited in number) and say in a voice of absolute certainty that she knows from her experience that this is how these things play out and can others "see the trend". She tends to stick in trend-ruts, having identified certain "trends" from her experiences and feeling sure that she can see them coming and wisely get out of the way ahead of time. Although I think she used her Ni HA and all, the concrete manner in which she addresses these things and the certainty she has, say Se (although this is not why I think she's Se, that's another matter that is even more difficult to try to explain, but it's just very obvious to me). Also despite her belief about being right about these things, she's actually wrong quite often because she can't see outside of her ruts so if anything from outside of them comes it sends her off guard and plunges her into uncertainty (and she hates uncertainty which is why she devotes a lot of effort to trying to find tried and true processes which will account for any number of unforeseen things that may go wrong, using experience to identify these things). Anyway at first what you were saying reminded me more of this than it did of something I would see more as Ni or intuition.
Now I do not know what I think and will wait for other things to arise.
As an aside I at least think I agree that Wentworth Miller below is Ni/Se quadra at the very least and I see "Ni" present in what he says.
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