発散思考・収束思考

English translation: divergent thinking and convergent thinking

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Japanese term or phrase:発散思考・収束思考
English translation:divergent thinking and convergent thinking
Entered by: Can Altinbay

01:04 Apr 12, 2005
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Japanese term or phrase: 発散思考・収束思考
アイデアは発散思考と収束思考を交互に繰り返して、良い案に収斂させます。

Brainstorming is a type of 発散思考.

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Can Altinbay
Local time: 01:29
divergent thinking and convergent thinking
Explanation:
発散思考=divergent thinking
収束思考=convergent thinking

Google search with the following key words suggested: "convergent thinking" "divergent thinking"
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sumc
United States
Local time: 01:29
Grading comment
Thank you all for your great suggestions. Sawada san, ごめんなさい, but I'm going to award the earlier one.
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Summary of answers provided
3 +4divergent thinking and convergent thinking
sumc
5expansive thinking, conclusive thinking
Nobuo Kawamura
5divergent thinking and convergent thinking
Kazuo SAWADA
3Induction and deduction
humbird


Discussion entries: 4





  

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15 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +4
発散思考・収束思考
divergent thinking and convergent thinking


Explanation:
発散思考=divergent thinking
収束思考=convergent thinking

Google search with the following key words suggested: "convergent thinking" "divergent thinking"

sumc
United States
Local time: 01:29
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thank you all for your great suggestions. Sawada san, ごめんなさい, but I'm going to award the earlier one.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  mnlucht
1 hr
  -> Thank you.

agree  cinefil: http://csx.jp/〜komechu/education/education_questions.html
4 hrs
  -> Thank you.

agree  Jenelle Davenport: I agree with this. From the context and considering nuances, perhaps this translation is your best bet.
20 hrs
  -> Thank you.

agree  snowbees: see: http://www.kt.rim.or.jp/~kobashi/ccig/ccwords.htm
1 day 19 hrs
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15 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
expansive thinking, conclusive thinking


Explanation:
[or] To think expansively, to think conclusively

Nobuo Kawamura
Japan
Local time: 14:29
Native speaker of: Native in JapaneseJapanese
PRO pts in category: 8
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
発散思考・収束思考
divergent thinking and convergent thinking


Explanation:
divergent thinking is the thinking method, which diversify from one to many areas, on the other hand convergent thinking tries to come together to one ultimate point.

Kazuo SAWADA
Local time: 19:29
Native speaker of: Japanese
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発散思考・収束思考
Induction and deduction


Explanation:
演繹法と帰納法のことをいってるのと違いますか? Induce & decuce, these are opposite and two thinking modes used for adversarial arguments or mathmatical logics. General to specifics as opposed to sepcific to general.
If not educate me, please.

humbird
Native speaker of: Native in JapaneseJapanese, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8
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