toonia
11-28-2007, 09:23 AM
The purpose of this thread is to propose and respond to likely INTJ minds that have influenced intellectual thought. The first individual I propose is Arthur Eddington.
I was recently reading through Arthur Eddington's quotes and he reads like an INTJ. He is analytical, and demonstrates a predominately intuitive approach. Descriptions of Ni dominants include seeing a problem from every conceivable angle. There also seems to be more focus on what is not known with Ni, while Ti is more conclusive conceptually. He is markedly an NT, but INTJ seems the most likely candidate. Consider the following:
1. The portions of the external universe of which we have additional knowledge by direct awareness amount to a very small fraction of the whole; of the rest we know only the structure and not what it is a structure of. Science is concerned with the rational correlation of experience rather than a discovery of fragments of absolute truth about an external world.
2. Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.
3. We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.
4. Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
5. It is a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in a theory until it has been confirmed by observation. I hope I shall not shock the experimental physicists too much if I add that it is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they have been confirmed by theory.
6. Philosophically, the notion of a beginning of the present order of Nature is repugnant to me... I should like to find a genuine loophole.
7. An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water.
8. The man in the street is always making this demand for concrete explanation of the things referred to in science; but of necessity he must be disappointed. It is like our experience in learning to read. That which is written in a book is symbolic of a story in real life.
9. The ultimate elements in a theory of the world must be of a nature impossible to define in terms recognizable to the mind.
10. Reality is only obtained when all conceivable points of view have been combined.
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I was recently reading through Arthur Eddington's quotes and he reads like an INTJ. He is analytical, and demonstrates a predominately intuitive approach. Descriptions of Ni dominants include seeing a problem from every conceivable angle. There also seems to be more focus on what is not known with Ni, while Ti is more conclusive conceptually. He is markedly an NT, but INTJ seems the most likely candidate. Consider the following:
1. The portions of the external universe of which we have additional knowledge by direct awareness amount to a very small fraction of the whole; of the rest we know only the structure and not what it is a structure of. Science is concerned with the rational correlation of experience rather than a discovery of fragments of absolute truth about an external world.
2. Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers.
3. We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.
4. Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
5. It is a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in a theory until it has been confirmed by observation. I hope I shall not shock the experimental physicists too much if I add that it is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they have been confirmed by theory.
6. Philosophically, the notion of a beginning of the present order of Nature is repugnant to me... I should like to find a genuine loophole.
7. An ocean traveler has even more vividly the impression that the ocean is made of waves than that it is made of water.
8. The man in the street is always making this demand for concrete explanation of the things referred to in science; but of necessity he must be disappointed. It is like our experience in learning to read. That which is written in a book is symbolic of a story in real life.
9. The ultimate elements in a theory of the world must be of a nature impossible to define in terms recognizable to the mind.
10. Reality is only obtained when all conceivable points of view have been combined.
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