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May I chime in and answer this? "INTP" comes from the Meyers-Briggs &/or Kiersey Personality Sorters, which are in turn influenced by Carl Jung's work regarding personality typology:
According to Jung's typology all people can be classified using three criteria.
These criteria are:
Extroversion - Introversion
Sensing - Intuition
Thinking - Feeling
Judging - Perceiving (this fourth pair added by Myers- Briggs)
The first criterion defines the source and direction of energy expression for a person. The extrovert has a source and direction of energy expression mainly in the external world while the introvert has a source of energy mainly in the internal world.
The second criterion defines the method of information perception by a person. Sensing means that a person believes mainly information he receives directly from the external world. Intuition means that a person believes mainly information he receives from the internal or imaginative world.
The third criterion defines how the person processes information. Thinking means that a person makes a decision mainly through logic. Feeling means that, as a rule, he makes a decision based on emotion.
The fourth criterion defines how a person implements the information he has processed. Judging means that a person organizes all his life events and acts strictly according to his plans. Perceiving means that he is inclined to improvise and seek alternatives.
The different combinations of the criteria determine a type. There may be sixteen types. Every type has a name (or formula) according to the combination of criteria. For example: INTP= Introvert Intuitive Thinking Perceiving.
(Me, I'm a classic INFJ, not to mention an Enneagram 5)

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