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the classic example of how difficult it is to "Think Outside the Box", and how
persuasive current paradigms are in maintaining themselves.
Lateral Thinking
Lateral thinking is a term coined by Edward de Bono, a Maltese psychologist, physician and writer. It
first appeared in the title of his book New Think: The Use of Lateral Thinking, published in 1967.
De Bono defines lateral thinking as methods of thinking concerned with changing concepts and
perception. Lateral thinking is about reasoning that is not immediately obvious and about ideas that
may not be obtainable by using only traditional step-by-step logic.
There are four critical factors linked with it. They are:
1. Recognize dominant ideas that polarize perception of a problem
2. Searching for different ways of looking at things,
3. Relaxation of rigid control of thinking
4. Use of chance to encourage other ideas
Paradigms
&
Paradigm Shifts
In The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Thomas Kuhn
argued that science is not a steady, cumulative acquisition of
knowledge.
Instead, science is "a series of peaceful interludes punctuated
by intellectually violent revolutions" [Nicholas Wade, writing for
Science], which he described as "the tradition-shattering
complements to the tradition-bound activity of normal science."
After such revolutions, "one conceptual world view is replaced
by another" [Wade].
Thomas Kuhn
Paradigm shift is the term first used by
Thomas Kuhn in his 1962 book
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions to describe a
change in basic assumptions within the ruling theory
of science.
It has since become widely applied to many other
realms of human experience as well.
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