Friday, November 22nd, 2013
Are our most important discoveries the result of logical thinking or lateral thinking? Why?
If I had to choose one between the two, I would have to say that most of our important discoveries probably arise from lateral reasoning. This is because lateral reasoning arises into "thinking outside the box", or outside the limits of conventions and normal realms of thoughts. Many times, people say that the most important discoveries come from accidental discoveries, accidental encountering of information. But these situations are referred to as "accidents" because they seemed to be out of bounds, not conceivable according to logical reasoning. The word discovery implies the finding of new information, and new information can be encountered only from exploration. So the discovery is due to lateral reasoning, whereas the development of these newly discovered ideas arise from logical reasoning that continue and expand upon the discoveries.
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