can anyone explain the difference b/w LATERAL and LOGICAL thinking?

Question

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Answer 1

Logical thinking will solve more than lateral thinking.

Answer 2

Lateral refers to thinking in a highly creative fashion that would not fit any simple logical analysis. E.g., noticing the metaphorical connections between words, rather than deriving B from A. Scientific discovery relies on lateral thinking for coming up with the groundbreaking hypothesis or theory, and also logical thinking in making sure the hypothesis is itself sensible and in testing the hypothesis. Although there are "logics" for judging whether a hypothesis fits data better than other hypotheses, there is really no logic of discovery (despite this being the title of a famous book by Popper); lateral thinking of some kind tends to be needed.

Answer 3

Our brain is partly geared to deal with orderly matters or logical thinking, as well as handling more complex matters that do not necessarily follow a routine logic.

Everyone has potentials for improved logical and lateral thinking.

All that is required, is practise.

Activities like sums, accounting, and even simple counting in a certain order improve logical thinking.

Lateral thinking involves a more relaxed state of mind. It requires deeper thinking, and is creative.

Meditation can improve both states, namely beta waves for logical thinking, and alpha waves for lateral thinking.

Answer 4

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Lateral thinking is a term coined by Edward de Bono, a Maltese psychologist, physician, and writer, although it may have been an idea whose time was ready; the notion of lateral truth is discussed by Robert M. Pirsig in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance from the same era (1973/1974). de Bono defines Lateral Thinking as methods of thinking concerned with changing concepts and perception. For example:

It took two hours for two men to dig a hole five feet deep. How deep would it have been if ten men had dug the hole for two hours?

The answer appears to be 25 feet deep. This answer assumes that the thinker has followed a simple mathematical relationship suggested by the description given, but we can generate some lateral thinking ideas about what affects the size of the hole which may lead to different answers:

* A hole may need to be of a certain size or shape so digging might stop early at a required depth.
* The deeper a hole is, the more effort is required to dig it, since waste soil needs to be lifted higher to the ground level. There is a limit to how deep a hole can be dug by manpower without use of ladders or hoists for soil removal, and 25 feet is beyond this limit.
* Deeper soil layers may be harder to dig out, or we may hit bedrock or the water table.
* Are we digging in soil? Clay? Sand? Each presents its own special considerations.
* Digging in a forest becomes much easier once we have cut through the first several feet of roots.
* Each man digging needs space to use a shovel.
* It is possible that with more people working on a project, each person may become less efficient due to increased opportunity for distraction, the assumption he can slack off, more people to talk to, etc.
* More men could work in shifts to dig faster for longer.
* There are more men but are there more shovels?
* The two hours dug by ten men may be under different weather conditions than the two hours dug by two men.
o Rain could flood the hole to prevent digging.
o Temperature conditions may freeze the men before they finish.
* Would we rather have 5 holes each 5 feet deep?
* The two men may be an engineering crew with digging machinery.
* What if one man in each group is a manager who will not actually dig?
* The extra eight men might not be strong enough to dig, or much stronger than the first two.

The most useful ideas listed above are outside the simple mathematics implied by the question. 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.

Techniques that apply lateral thinking to problems are characterised by the shifting of thinking patterns away from entrenched or predictable thinking to new or unexpected ideas. A new idea that is the result of lateral thinking is not always a helpful one, but when a good idea is discovered in this way it is usually obvious in hindsight, which is a feature lateral thinking shares with a joke.

Answer 5

Nice question!

A way of solving problems by using yur imagination is lateral thinking,

while LOGICAL is the way of solving problems by using facts and theory.

Answer 6

See,Lateral thinking means 'not to think completely but to think uppishly'. And logical thinking means 'capable of showing rational thought' (expected or reasonable under the circumstances).

Answer 7

lateral is indirect whereas logical is direct thinking

Answer 8

lateral thinking is what mothers think, while logical thinking seems to be compulsory for dads