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Or is that what it MEANS to think outside the box?

Either way, saying "Think outside the box" is most certainly NOT thinking outside the box. Thoughts?

2006-08-16 19:17:10 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities Philosophy

Nay, I am not a linguish, merely a philosopher. Though I took a philosophy/linguistics hybrid class (PHI 185) which was the language of logic (Formal Order Logic, or FOL. My girlfriend used to call it "LOL form" as a joke)

2006-08-16 19:42:53 · update #1

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The fourth dimensional equivalent would be to "think outside the tesseract."

2006-08-16 19:25:26 · answer #1 · answered by druid 7 · 0 0

The fourth dimension should not, as astrophysics would define it, be able to contain the shape of a box, so to say thinking outside the box in the fourth dimension would seem a rather daunting task, as the definition of a box as we now know it to be in the 2nd and 3rd dimensions would need total redefinition in a 4th dimension. However if I may take a stab at what a phrase like this would be like in the fourth dimension, I would conjure up something along the lines of, "thought is wasted energy when in the box". have a great day.

2006-08-17 00:01:18 · answer #2 · answered by pingpong 5 · 0 0

To geniuses everything just makes sense I guess. Other ppl are stunned that they can wake up from a nap in class and answer a question in a way that seems break thru...must be creativity or something. ah, when u say "think outside of the box" it is just a way for us non geniuses to understand. lol
btw. are u a linguist like me....playing with words and conventions is fun.

2006-08-16 19:37:30 · answer #3 · answered by shrim 1 · 0 0

Thinking outside the box is an expression created by someone who was not thinking outside the box but was actually outside the box, contemplating how to reach the inside of the box.

So I guess in fact, he was thinking outside the box.

2006-08-16 19:28:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

"Think outside the box" is a business jargon used in the offices where employees are in the cubicles or "boxes" as they figuratively call them. When someone says, "we have to think outside the box", it means - don't limit your thinking within your job description or "cubicle" or "box" alone. Even if you are in level 1 position, if you find an idea of a level 10 position, stand up and delilver as a team member.

2006-08-16 19:52:14 · answer #5 · answered by JR P 2 · 0 0

In mathematical terms:
2 dimensions = square
3 dimensions = cube (box)
4 dimensions = hypercube or tesseract

So, in 4 dimensions, you'd be thinking outside of the hypercube or outside the tesseract.

2006-08-17 07:42:44 · answer #6 · answered by mrvadeboncoeur 7 · 0 0

in case you declare that there is purely a container on your strategies then you rather think of during the container of your strategies. i seem at a container on my table. it is packed with golf stuff. Handkerchiefs and golf balls etc. I regarded at it and now i think of who will use it next, this container as i do unlike golf, yet somebody gave it to the business company and somebody in this business company will decide to apply it. yet specializing in golf linked me with the golf container or extra advantageous stated vi ca verse as only in establishing the container, became into I reminded on golf. And so would this additionally function in our minds. the numerous packing containers you will discover in there'll connect you to diverse thoughts or innovations. as long as we don't come across with the container, we are able to nevertheless discover it sensible as packing containers would properly be closed and opened as we wish. a individual who is familiar with that she does not stay in a container, would nevertheless see the way you try this some human beings stay in a sort of container. The rooms we live in resemble as such of their type additionally a container unquestionably. while you're in penal complex you are able to no longer bypass out of your container. while you're unfastened you are able to decide on which container you opt for to circulate into in. If we learn a container with a map of the international we are able to continuously comprehend that the map isn't the territory and so may additionally no unmarried container be the whole certainty.

2016-10-02 04:43:49 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

I think it's most commonly referred to as "common sense".

2006-08-16 19:24:02 · answer #8 · answered by ♥Sweet♥ 4 · 0 0

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