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- initialism psychology introverted, intuitive, thinking and perceiving: a
personality type in the Myers-Briggs type indicator
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Examples
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Actually, I was an INTP (Introversion Intuition Thinking Perceiving) with a moderate preference clarity in all four categories.
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Honestly, I probably would have had to control my INTP nature to correct someone if I had heard them say it that way.
Prescriptivists amaze me (to) no end « Motivated Grammar 2009
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INTP: What grammatical error makes you want to commit homicide?
Singular “they” and the many reasons why it’s correct « Motivated Grammar 2009
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I score on that particular online test as INTJ, though I have also scored before as INTP.
What's Next for Science Fiction? julieandrews 2008
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One more data point: I'm an INTP (engineer) who migrated from Chomskyite Leftist in my 20s to Classical Liberal today (I'm now 38).
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In terms of political philosophy I find myself most aligned with the writings of John Stuart Millhimself incidentally an INTP.
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In fact, it might feel more comfortable to go through the book and, wherever the word autism appears, substitute Myers-Briggs INTP or Enneagram "five," Investigator.
Pro-Autistic Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The Myers-Briggs system identifies INTP as "Architects".
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If instead we were talking about, say, a Myers-Briggs INTP, the opposite would be an ESFJ, both of which are normal although the INTP is less common.
Pro-Autistic Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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I can understand on a certain level how the idealistic tendancies of an INTP would lead them towards libtertarianism.
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