Whether one looks at rocks (sensors) or the waters rushing around them (intuitives)

I think the waters reach deeper to what is True.

so... you are using neologistic terms

but let me still see if I understand

sensor: see phenomenon->compile list of phenomena and their behaviors->attempt to explain

This way of looking at personality was first advanced by carl jung.

while intuitives do what?

yes, I'm aware of Jung

The language is jungian.

It isn't objective.

so attempt to summarize or explain

meet me halfway bro

so as opposed to perceiving phenomena and noting patterns, what does an intuitive do? do they just wake up with gnosis of how the world works?

intuitives tend to see or want to find principles from which all phenomena could thereafter be explained (think einstein, lawrence krauss)

Go to the root first.

Skip the tree.

I don't think like that man

Technically intuitive

You think more like that than you do a sensor.

okay, so sensors pay attention to what is, and intuitives want to find a theory of everything. Is that getting close to your idea?

Yeah, I can work with that.

so what if a sensor looked at so many phenomena and inductively reasoned so much that he too developed an explanatory theory of everything? would he then become an intuitive?

I am generally getting an impression from you that an intuitive is someone who connects dots while a sensor is a hollywood caveman retard who does not connect dots

not so much that the intuitive does not sense phenomena, but that the sensor is restricted to that alone and can't really abstract

both the sensor and the intuitive see the rocks in the stream just fine, but for the sensor it stops there because he is a retard, while the intuitive goes on to notice patterns

I think the sensor would always need to refer his theory to something observable.

A contemplation of pure metaphysics, I don't think he would do.

Like perennial philosophy or something.

so a sensor in your lingo corresponds to an empiricist in philosophic terms

Like sensor, when they're religious, usually are so because they had a personal experience of seeing or feeling the divine.

Wheras an intuitive could just know it regardless.

how?

Sensors are more empirical, yeah.

I feel like your intuitive concept requires magic gnosis

Through intellectual intuition.

(that's the real term guenon used)

that defines intuition using the word intuition, it is circular

the kabbalah is a very good kabbalah

http://mbti-notes.tumblr.com/basics#sn

It is.

based on your context I am forced to conclude that you mean gnosis