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Lateral knowledge is knowledge that's form a wholly unexpected direction, from a direction that's not even understood as a direction until the knowledge forces itsefl upone one. Lateral truths point to the falseness of axioms and postulates underlying one's existing system of getting at truth.

R.M. Pirsig. Zen and the art...

cf De Bono method; getting away from the psychological inertia.