Lateral Thinking (3)

質問

『Lateral Thinking (2)』 の続きになります。

The story shows the difference between vertical thinking and lateral thinking. Vertical thinkers are concerned with the fact that the girl has to take a pebble. Lateral thinkers become concerned with the pebble that is left behind. Vertical thinkers take the most reasonable view of a situation and then proceed logically and carefully to work it out. Lateral thinkers tend to explore all the different ways of looking at something, rather than accepting the most promising and proceeding from that.

The girl in the pebble story put her hand into the money bag and drew out a pebble. Without looking at it she fumbled and let it fall to the path where it was immediately lost among all the others.
"Oh, how clumsy of me," she said, "but never mind--if you look into the bag you will be able to tell which pebble I took by the colour of the one that is left."

itとthatが指すものを教えてください。

1）Vertical thinkers take the most reasonable view of a situation and then proceed logically and carefully to work it out.

itはthe most reasonable view of a situationですか？

2）Lateral thinkers tend to explore all the different ways of looking at something, rather than accepting the most promising and proceeding from that.

thatはsomethingですか？

よろしくお願いいたします。

回答No.1

bakansky · ベストアンサー

> 1）Vertical thinkers take the most reasonable view of a situation and then proceed logically and carefully to work it out.

> itはthe most reasonable view of a situationですか？

　そのように考えるのは垂直思考です ・・・ というわけではありませんが、その it は the situation だと思います。... and carefully to work the situation out. (そしてその状況をどうにかしようとする)

> 2）Lateral thinkers tend to explore all the different ways of looking at something, rather than accepting the most promising and proceeding from that.

> thatはsomethingですか？

　この文だけに限定すれば確かに something であるとしか言えません。

お礼

３問とも回答してくださって本当にありがとうございます！
質問の箇所がclearになりました!
...and carefully to work the situation out.と考えるとよいのですね。
（水平思考を身につけたいところです）