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type has always a typical reasonal variation. Thus, the introverted rational types unquestionably
have a reasoning judgment, only it is a judgment whose leading note is subjective. The laws of
logic are not necessarily deflected, since its onesidedness lies in the premise. The premise is the
predominance of the subjective factor existing beneath every conclusion and colouring every
judgment. Its superior value as compared with the objective factor is self-evident from the
beginning. As already stated, it is not just a question of value bestowed, but of a natural
disposition existing before all rational valuation. Hence, to the introvert rational judgment
necessarily appears to have many nuances which differentiate it from that of the extravert. Thus,
to the introvert, to mention the most general instance, that chain of reasoning which leads to the
subjective factor appears rather more reasonable than that which leads to the object. This
difference, which in the individual case is practically insignificant, indeed almost unnoticeable,
effects unbridgeable oppositions in the gross; these are the more irritating, the less we are aware
of the minimal standpoint displacement produced by the psychological premise in the individual
case. A [p. 497] capital error regularly creeps in here, for one labours to prove a fallacy in the
conclusion, instead of realizing the difference of the psychological premise. Such a realization is
a difficult matter for every rational type, since it undermines the apparent, absolute validity of his
own principle, and delivers him over to its antithesis, which certainly amounts to a catastrophe.
Almost more even than the extraverted is the introverted type subject to misunderstanding: not so
much because the extravert is a more merciless or critical adversary, than he himself can easily
be, but because the style of the epoch in which he himself participates is against him. Not in
relation to the extraverted type, but as against our general accidental world-philosophy, he finds
himself in the minority, not of course numerically, but from the evidence of his own feeling. In
so far as he is a convinced participator in the general style, he undermines his own foundations,
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since the present style, with its almost exclusive acknowledgment of the visible and the tangible,
is opposed to his principle. Because of its invisibility, he is obliged to depreciate the subjective
factor, and to force himself to join in the extraverted overvaluation of the object. He himself sets
the subjective factor at too low a value, and his feelings of inferiority are his chastisement for
this sin. Little wonder, therefore, that it is precisely our epoch, and particularly those movements
which are somewhat ahead of the time, that reveal the subjective factor in every kind of
exaggerated, crude and grotesque form of expression. I refer to the art of the present day.
The undervaluation of his own principle makes the introvert egotistical, and forces upon him the
psychology of the oppressed. The more egotistical he becomes, the stronger his impression
grows that these others, who are apparently able, without qualms, to conform with the present
style, are the oppressors against whom he must guard and [p. 498] protect himself. He does not
usually perceive that he commits his capital mistake in not depending upon the subjective factor
with that same loyalty and devotion with which the extravert follows the object By the
undervaluation of his own principle, his penchant towards egoism becomes unavoidable, which,
of course, richly deserves the prejudice of the extravert. Were he only to remain true to his own
principle, the judment of 'egoist' would be radically false; for the justification of his attitude
would be established by its general efficacy, and all misunderstandings dissipated.
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