Quote Originally Posted by Subterranean
Quote Originally Posted by Jonathan
Personally, I don't like it when people identify Te too much with raw data, because then it becomes a perceiving function rather than a judging function. Further, if Ni is understanding or deciding how to fit the pieces together and Te is the pieces of raw data, then Ni becomes the judging function and Te is the perceiving one.
Te looks at the environmental context of an object in the current moment (i.e. now) - e.g. the spatial position of an object in relation to other objects - in order to determine the relevance of objects.
This is Ti - really, it's the definition of Ti. You are comparing distances, distances are relationships, relationships are the domain of introverted functions, you are dealing with well-definied stuff so it's Thinking, therefore it is Ti.