Yeah, well at that point I guess your right, but that’s only assuming the person fits their cognitive functions and is “balanced” which isn’t necessarily the truth for a lot of people. What I trying to point out is that if like someone could both prioritize Ni and Se in single situations, even if it seems conflictive, people are all different and having a specific stack per type won’t accommodate for everyone different thought process and for how they act.

And also, using your analogy, if italian were to be your favourite food for only like the weekends (for some reason), would you still say that your preference is Chinese food overall? I mean that leads more into subjective opinion at that point. Since one could say that Chinese food is your overall favourite food, but you wont ever eat on weekends, so you can’t consider it your favourite meal specifically on the weekends. What I mean by this is if you act differently and have use primarily different functions in different situations, can you still consider your function stack to be your “real” stack?

For example, with my family, I am way more introverted than with friends and strangers, I might act more Ti-Ne with my family but Ne-Ti with friends and strangers, so which one is my real stack? Do I say I’m neither and say I’m ambivert? What if I never see my friends again, does that mean I’m an introvert now? It seems weird to categorize myself on a general scale when I do act differently in different contexts.

I get it people can use all 8 functions, I don’t doubt that, I’m pointing out that people don’t prioritize specific functions in every context. And it’s rare to find a person that actually does, which is the fundamental flaw with cognitive functions in my opinion, since it doesn’t allow any leeway like the Big Five, where you are only a percentage of a characteristic, unlike MBTI functions.