lateralist

Characteristic of lateralism; pertaining to the interactions of opposing interests of equal power.

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.

Favoring a lateral approach or explanation over one that involves a different direction, such as a vertical one.

...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?

One who engages in lateral thinking.

The correlator is a lateralist capable of making one to one correspondences between the vertical sciences and the horizontal arts.

One and one make two, the literalist said. So far they've made five billion, said the lateralist. Or ten if you count all the dead.

One who favors a lateral approach or explanation over one that involves a different direction.

Harris was not, however, as we have already said, to walk the course, for the lateralists and attractists, took the field against him, and for a while divided the opinions of those interested in the matter. The lateral-explosionists were demolished by Messrs. Faraday and Wheatstone, who distinctly disavowed any knowledge of a side discharge which was not a diversion or division of the primary current, where the conductor was not of sufficient capacity of conduction, and that liabilities to such diversion would decrease in proportion to the goodness of the conductor: but the attactists contemned the whole race of lightning conductors stock-and-fluke, although their efficacy might be considered to have been established beyond all doubt by the experience of eighty years, and the unanimous opinions of the scientific in all countries. .

It can not be on that of numbers, as there will be such an overwhelming majority of diagonalities that the lateralists will be in a '"hopeless minority," hundreds against thousands when the computation is made.

One who favors lateralism.

It was at this meeting, after all, that many of us discovered for the first time that we were global unilateralists, global multilateralists, non-global unilateralists or multilateralists, to say nothing of lateralists of various persuasions and intensities.

Going lateral was another movement that began on the Internet. The lateralists worked out that they could actually live way better by detaching themselves from the economic systems of derivatives, leverage, optionality, and toxic assets. In just months, the lateralists' ranks swelled from thousands to millions to hundreds of millions.