Sekirov Dictionary

lateralist

noun 3
adjective 2
forms 3

noun3

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One who engages in lateral thinking.
- The correlator is a lateralist capable of making one to one correspondences between the vertical sciences and the horizontal arts. — 1971
One who favors a lateral approach or explanation over one that involves a different direction.
One who favors lateralism.

adjective2

•
Characteristic of lateralism; pertaining to the interactions of opposing interests of equal power.
- Albertano's more lateralist, Aristotelian sympathies are also reflected in his choice of setting, scenario and protagonists. — 2008
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Favoring a lateral approach or explanation over one that involves a different direction, such as a vertical one.
- Should the scientist be monological or multilogical? Should the scientist be reductionist or holist? Should the scientist be inductivist or deductivist: lateralist or verticalist? — 1991

forms

lateralists · more lateralist · most lateralist

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