Possibility

 

Edward de Bono’s message

As so often happens language is short of many words. We need a simple word which indicates the following: “What you say is not wrong. I do not disagree with it. But it is only one possibility (explanation, perception, etc.). We need to be aware of other possibilities and even to look for them. Here is one other possibility.”

That is quite a mouthful and a simple indicative word would have a high value. Our thinking habits are so obsessed with ‘right/wrong’ that ‘possibility’ always gets insufficient attention. The reasons for this are obvious because our thinking habits are all judgement based.