You Can't Refute Model G With Model A Structural Fundamentalism
Model G is a model used in the Humanitarian Socionics School, primarily to account for its observations of the Socionics types in a way that may differ from how Model A has traditionally accounted for them (even though Model A has not really been able garner general agreement either). There are other reasons for the model, including some philosophical ideas about energy (as opposed to information socionics) that aren’t as dependent on the fashions of post-Soviet education when Socionics was being formed and that dovetail quite well with the practical approach of SHS. However, I find those reasons are often less relevant than the first more fundamental reason I mentioned (that the model is better at accounting for the observations which is really the level at which descriptive models need to be compared instead of at the level of incommensurable abstractions). Often would be “refuters” of Model G, who don’t have a disposition conducive to thinking with multiple models or to the diffi...
