Socionics Positivist/Negativist Function Pairs

I was thinking lately about why certain pairs of functions are positivist or negativist. For example, TeNe, FeSe, TiSi and FiNi are positivist, whereas TeSe, FeNe, TiNi and FiSi are negativist. I think there is a simple enough explanation as to why:

TeNe: This is fundamentally about the future, about working towards a future idea or purpose that is not yet actualized. This is inherently convergent and thus positivist because we are trying to get closer to bringing this idea into existence.

FeSe: This is about the present moment involvement, responding based on our sensations and emotions in the present. It is positivist because present moment consciousness is undivided and also merges us with our environment.

TiSi: This is about normalization, in other words maintaining or reaching some stable order. It is convergent because major deviations from this order are rejected and because it is trying to reach a point of overall stability and completion. For the logic to be embodied the contradictions must be removed.

FiNi: This is about harmonization, smoothing over the psychological climate and taking steps so that people and relationships can be in greater mutual harmony. This harmony is obviously convergent and it changes relationships to the best possible state (maximizing).

TeSe: This is about competition or dominance which inherently involves things set against one another. That might be people in martial or business competition, or just doing hard work which sets your working capacity against the inertia of reality. These competing forces are divergent and the kind of brute realism needed to size up what will win out is also rather negativist.

FeNe: This is about creativity. These functions most of all stand out against the background, coming up with bright new prospects and alternatives that attract attention. To stand out in this way requires negativist divergence, and often involves breaking out of some limits.

TiNi: This is about ideal mental logics, the meta temporal which is most detached from its environment. This detachment is already a separation since you can only get close to it, never reach it. Moreover, these ideal logics tend to be multi-factorial with internal contradictions, probabilistic or fuzzy, multiple options to complete an ambiguous abstract pattern.

FiSi: This is about our concrete past and comfortable attachments. Attachments reject that which is different (we are already at our attachments so we don’t converge on them), sensitive vital conditions are easily disturbed, and we are always moving away from the past towards the future, trying to overcome our trauma and negative memories, taking lessons of what to avoid.

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Ti into Si: Logic of an embodied object (even an abstract object) must be unified, coalescing in a convergent entity

Ti into Ni: Logic of the unknown and uncompleted, has to make uncertain predictions and can only see what does not mix

Si into Ti: Sensations from an inanimate source of information are unambiguous, and may be able to be adjusted or attuned to suit you

Si into Fi: Sensations from animate, living sources are divergent, people are unique from one another and have the exercise of will

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