We use the term Lenore-attitude to designate exactly which terminology we're using. A Lenore-attitude is a function attitude in terms of the concepts and terminology of Lenore Thomson.

Why we need this term

People in the Myers-Briggs world often use the same terminology to mean very different things, all of which tend to be pretty fuzzily defined. For example, Linda Berens speaks of "function attitudes" that seem a lot more like an attempt to catalog all the kinds of mental things you can do consciously. For example, Linda Berens defines Si as remembering the past, Ni as thinking of the future, and Se as attending to the present concrete situation. Lenore's concepts are somewhat harder to pin down--indeed the whole purpose of this wiki is to figure out what she's talking about--but the basic idea seems to be quite different.

If we understand Lenore correctly, Lenore-attitudes are different innate "molds" into which the brain pours its sensory experiences, each Lenore-attitude structuring the same experience differently and regarding different aspects of the same experience as meaningful and meaningless. They relate only somewhat obliquely to personality, in that Lenore-attitudes provide people's ways of navigating through both the inner world of archetypes and the outer world of material concerns and social status in order to create a sense of what they as individuals have a stake in--the process of ego-orientation.

Often people in the Myers-Briggs world use the same terminology to stand for radically different things without saying so, and perhaps without knowing that they talking in terms of completely different hypotheses.

So when we want to indicate with maximum clarity that we mean "whatever Lenore Thomson is talking about when she speaks of function attitudes," we say "Lenore-attitudes".

From the perspective of Introverted Intuition, this term might be superfluous

From a radically Ni perspective, distinguishing between what Lenore means by function attitude terminology and what other people mean by the same terminology might seem misguided. From an Ni perspective, words don't refer to anything; rather, they shape the way you take in and make sense of information. No one person's way of interpreting experience has any privilege over any other. What matters are the words themselves; each person must be free to make his own interpretation.

So, by even making the distinction of Lenore-attitudes vs. what other people use function attitude terminology to stand for, we might be privileging some Lenore-attitudes over others. Specifically, we might be discounting introverted intuition in favor of introverted thinking. Nevertheless, we are not going to let that stop us.

Lenore herself, being a dom-Ni type, might even see this attempt to clarify terminology as misguided. We are not even going to let that stop us.