Meaning of lateralist | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Characteristic of lateralism; pertaining to the interactions of opposing interests of equal power.
2. Favoring a lateral approach or explanation over one that involves a different direction, such as a vertical one.

Examples

“If 'left-winger' and 'right-winger' are terms of opprobrium moreover, the journalists can help their chosen cause by invoking lateralist terms to characterise, in the guise of simply describing, one of the parties in a dispute. This implies that the other party is 'centrist' or 'moderate' or 'non-extremist.'”

“A chief criticism levelled against American "lateralist" and "polar" theorists is precisely the accusation that they are attempting to avoid the issue of the development of relations between the two socio-economic systems, i.e., the essentially bipolar politico-strategic structure of postwar international relations.”

“Albertano's more lateralist, Aristotelian sympathies are also reflected in his choice of setting, scenario and protagonists.”

“A lateralist and multilateralist exchange of languages and value systems redeems economy from reduction to profit and loss.”

“Within such a dynamic and seemingly boundaryless context for organizing, what looks like an anarchistic and lateralist set of relations, there are both challenges and advantages to social change agents”

“...but as far as African bedded deposits are concerned I think that the prospector following either the “ lateralist " or " profundist " advice will waste much time and money unless he is also guided by a study of possible sources of the ore he seeks, and of the probable itenerary of the solutions to which such ore owes its present position.”

“Should the scientist be monological or multilogical? Should the scientist be reductionist or holist? Should the scientist be inductivist or deductivist: lateralist or verticalist?”

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