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Originally Posted by Victor
It seems silly to keep on saying this but MBTI has no more truth value than astrology.
MBTI and astrology are essentially religious beliefs.
MBTI and astrology are not connected to reality. They are essentially imaginary.
Personally I am very attracted to the imaginary, for instance in poetry.
So I would say that MBTI and astrology are essentially poetic.
After all poetry does nothing and neither does MBTI or astrology.
Poetry is completely useless like MBTI or astrology, and yet some think that poetry is the purpose of our civilization.
So MBTI and astrology are poetry for beginners.
But to stop at the beginning and go no further is to grow up absurd.
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if you run with that line of reasoning, where do you stop?
why not label thought processes as cognitive functions? it's the same idea as calling something a table. is there some objective thing called a table? no. we subjectively apply terms to concepts. if you're against that, well...you miss out on language, metaphor, and basically any other key component of human thought.
and regarding truth value, MBTI and astrology are quite different. astrology arbitrarily connects behavior with star patterns, which obviously have a completely negligible effect. MBTI (i should say jungian functions) is a labeling device. it's a set of terms used to describe observed data. completely different...
if you use MBTI as a predictive device, you start running into more problems. most of the misapplication of MBTI lies in the false belief that Ns somehow don't use sensing all the time -- that thinkers somehow don't feel. once you recognize that everyone always uses S, N, T, and F all the time, and that being an S in MBTI only means that you're slightly more consciously attuned to sensing than intuiting, for example, there really aren't any problems with the system.
p.s. EVERY belief can be reduced to faith.