I'm not sure if I am clarifying his ideas, I'm just working with the words he's used. I've also never talked about it with him before, or even thought about it; I just spend too much time on Wikipedia's philosophy articles
"How do I come up with some criterion" = "How do I know something" though, right? Or do you mean something else?
Also, imo, Rational functions deal with reactions to knowledge. This is why Rational types have such immediate and strong reactions to words, facts, arguments, changing emotions, and all that Logical and Ethical stuff.
Irrational functions OTOH react to "reality", either their personal subjective reality as with IPs (cue imaginative couch potatodoms and go-with-the-flow epicurean
doms) or whatever it is in the world outside they've been sizing up.
Rick phrased it, basically, as "civilisation" versus "wild nature".
It's also a pre-existing concept in the notions of "apollonian" and "dionysian" elements in the world, interestingly.
Reasoning can either be logical and step-by-step where your reasoning is clear at each step (discursive), or it can be intuitive where you leap about from point to point. That's nothing new though.




doms and go-with-the-flow epicurean
doms) or whatever it is in the world outside they've been sizing up.
now.
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