
Originally Posted by
Rebelondeck
I don't equate understanding with empathising because I think that people can truly empathize without fully understanding the processes that they're experiencing. The associative processing of Fe-types is the better tool to actively link to the feelings of others in a rationalization sense whereas Fi-types have superior tools to objectively understand their situations. Fe-types rationalize in a group-hug (brain storm) sort of way, almost like they're getting into the heads of those around them and not entirely thinking for themselves while Fi-types detach from others in order to rationalize and really do think independently.
a.k.a. I/O