Originally Posted by
Phaedrus
can't see the trees, because it is more interested in the wood(s).
can't see the wood(s), because it is so focused on the trees and what they are made of.
This is true on a very superficial level, but I can't say it's a good way to put it. There is no forest without the trees. The tree itself is a piece of the puzzle and the roots pulling the water from the ground is a piece and hyphae all over the roots and soil... Forest is one HUGE system of things. The closer I look, the smaller the complex system. The tree is a slightly smaller system. I can zoom in and see the tree. Leaves moving in wind. I can look even closer. It's still a system.
is not a function that only looks at things from far away.
The problem at hand: Phaedrus's system of data gave him the result that all things combined, he's INTp.
Other people say, "no you're not"
Phaedrus thinks, ok, if the result of my system is wrong, then there is a flaw in my system. And then he starts to review the basics. Everything seems to fit, but others are still getting a different result from the same facts. He could just agree with the others and say that he's some other type, but that would help no one. The system is STILL wrong and it has to be fixed so he would be able to type other people. A correct
system/puzzle doesn't give false results. That can only happen with either a system with errors or an incomplete system. Phaedrus finished with the basics and started looking for the errors in the details.
Then people say, "Ahaa! you are asking about details, that must be
!", but they don't realize that every complete thing consists of details.
puzzle is just a combination of various pieces.
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