u/Full_Refrigerator_24

We do have the wiki, but it's not open to contribution (at least I don't think?). I feel this would help beginners with learning socionics and the different schools. Optionally people can also talk about the appeal of that particular school, I don't think that aspect is touched on enough in school choosing.

Definitions are heavily based on Ibrahim Tencer's semantics (see hyperlink).

Obviously as these are my definitions in my post, I don't need to preface them with "I see" or "I define". If you see "X is", that's what I mean.

Close/Accurate:

Te - Pragmatism/Profit: Te is fundamentally about observation and resource acquisition through reality-tracking. Pragmatism means orienting toward what works in practice, and what produces usable results from observed reality.

Acceptable:

Si - Senses: Sensory experience is the primary way present-state information is accessed, but other things also fall into Si: equilibrium, homeostasis, maintenance of quality, preservation of state.

Ti - Laws: Laws are explicit manifestations of systemic structure, but a law is only one expression of structure, not structure itself. A worldview or sets of beliefs is also structure.

Fi - Relations: Relations emerge because others can become extensions or mirrors of the self, and closeness depends on alignment of character/intention. But fundamentally Fi is about the self and its character or intentions.

Ne - Ideas: ideas are often media for possibility-generation, but there are also certain qualities to Ne that aren't possessed by every idea (breadth, adjacency, non-exclusivity).

Inaccurate:

Fe - Emotions: Fe is communication, dissemination, expression, etc. Emotions are only one subset of these.

Ni - Time/Telos: Ni is negation/conception of what is absent. It is not fundamentally about chronology. Past/future belong to Ni because they are non-present (i.e. can be accessed through the process of negation: memories for the former and imagination for the latter). Telos is closer (probably belongs in "Acceptable") but "Time" is the more common shorthand.

Misinformation:

Se - Force: Se is action, impact, actual observable change, etc. "Force" carries the incorrect connotation here, meaning 'aggression' rather than drive or change or action.