anguage points 7 Lateral thinking Dr de bono says, is a new technique of thinking about things a technique that avoids this fight altogether, and solves the problem in an entirely unexpected fashion. 8 In one of sherlock Holmess cases, his assistant, Dr Watson ointed out that a certain dog was of no importance to the case because it did not appear to have done anything. Sherlock Holmes took the opposite point of view and maintained that the fact the dog had done nothing was of the utmost significance, for it should have been expected to do something, and on this basis he solved the case 心7 Lateral thinking, Dr. de Bono says, is a new technique of thinking about things — a technique that avoids this fight altogether, and solves the problem in an entirely unexpected fashion. 8 In one of Sherlock Holmes’s cases, his assistant, Dr. Watson, pointed out that a certain dog was of no importance to the case because it did not appear to have done anything. Sherlock Holmes took the opposite point of view and maintained that the fact the dog had done nothing was of the utmost significance, for it should have been expected to do something, and on this basis he solved the case. Language Points